Productions East Video To Present Live Webcasts

Wellington, Florida - October 24, 2003 -- Jon Cromer of Productions East Video, in association with i2Sports.com, will present live webcasts of The 120th National Horse Show which will take place at The Palm Beach Polo Equestrian Club in Wellington, Florida from Wednesday, November 26, through Sunday, November 30, 2003. With Internet broadcasting, people around the world will be able to access live coverage of the nation's most prestigious year-end horse show from anywhere where they can log on to a computer.

Productions East Video will supply i2Sports.com with live footage from both the Internationale and DeNemethy Arenas at The Palm Beach Polo Equestrian Club during The National. Viewers will be able to watch the competition as it happens. For just $25 per day, or $100 for the entire National Horse Show, people can access coverage of the exciting competition, plus have access to the event in the site's archives for an additional month.

Previously in 2003, i2Sports.com provided coverage of the Tampa Bay Classic and the Tournament of Champions from the Winter Equestrian Festival in Tampa, Florida, as well as some of the Hunter/Jumper horse shows in Lexington, Kentucky.

"This is an amazing new service. Now people can sit anywhere in the world and watch some of the nation's leading horse shows. This service has great appeal to riders, trainers, owners and anyone who enjoys watching equestrian competition," said Cromer. "We are extremely excited to be able to offer this service for The 120th National Horse Show."

A cable modem, DSL, T1 or Satellite DSL with 768 KBPS download speeds are necessary to access the footage, along with Internet Explorer 5.0, and Windows Media Player 7 or 9, which can be downloaded from the site.

A graduate of Syracuse University, Cromer founded Productions East Video in 1984. Upon graduation, he moved his business to Saratoga Springs, New York, where he expanded his production company. Today, Productions East professionally videotapes figure skating and equestrian events throughout the country.

TrackMeets.com, Inc. d.b.a. i2sports is an Internet sports broadcast corporation located at Syracuse University's CASE Center. It produces and webcasts live amateur sporting events including track meets, footraces, field hockey, wrestling, football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, swimming and diving, lacrosse, soccer, softball and baseball, equestrian events as well as business and academic events. TrackMeets.com was the first website to broadcast live a track meet, and remains the only Internet company to provide full-service production and live broadcast of amateur athletics.

For more information, please visit www.i2sports.com or email inquiries to productionseast@starband.net.

Contact: Mason Phelps, Jr. or Beverly Lake Wilkes of Phelps Wilkes & Associates, Inc. at (561) 753-3389 or at info@phelpswilkes.com

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