Barclays Will Host Elite Show-Jumping Event

The Barclays Center’s calendar of events is quickly taking shape, as sports and entertainment promotion companies are vying for space in that is scheduled to seat up to 19,000.

Besides hosting Nets basketball games, part-owner Jay-Z has promised a handful of concerts, while Golden Boy Promotions will put on boxing matches and the Ringling Bros. Circus and Disney On Ice will make sure there’s stuff for the kids to do.

Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that the arena will also be home to the 2013 New York Masters, an elite show-jumping competition that’s part ponies, part champagne, caviar and celebrities. The event will pit the world's top 30 riders against each other (in the most civilized way possible) for a $1 million prize.

Why Brooklyn over Madison Square Garden, as in the past? The Barclays Center will have more space, organizers told the Journal.

The report cracks jokes about serving corn dogs instead of foie gras at the event to better fit into the neighborhood, but haven’t they heard that

The Journal says that the event will cost $6 million to produce, with around 80 horses stabled inside the arena, and more than 200 in tents outside. But, as one of the organizers said, "It's not a hipster event.”