Starting on
Animal Planet in July 2009:
JockeysPremiere date: Friday, 3 July 2009 at 21h00
Jockey's documents the behind-the-scenes lives of jockeys and their magnificent racehorses.
The show follows numerous athletes as they compete amongst each other during the course of a 30-day racing season. The pressure is high. Months of preparation go into each one-to-two-minute race, and jockeys ride as many as 10 races a day with an ambulance travelling at high speeds right behind the field of horses.
They risk life and limb, knowing that virtually every year an average of two jockeys die while riding races in North America. Meet the superstars whose success depends on knocking out the competition.
Big winners, who have won horse racing’s richest purses, live beside jockeys who have never won a race. Follow the action from pre-race jitters to the finish line and everything in between.
Untamed & UncutPremiere date: Thursday, 9 July 2009 at 21h00
Each half-hour episode of untamed and Uncut takes viewers on a journey around the world to meet the people whose lives are forever changed by a moment in time with an animal.
Computer graphic imaging breaks down these untamed flashpoints from the wild. Encounters captured include a zoo visitor who gets far too close to the polar bear cage and an angry elephant that rampages against her trainer, to a deep sea diver who gets up close and personal with a giant octopus.
Animal Planet is on DStv Channel 264.