Sportsnight with Coleman returns with The Leading Show Jumper of the Year Competition, The Fijians' first rugby tour match, The Joe Bugner-Eduardo Corletti Heavyweight clash, Tony Jacklin on the eve of the £18,450 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, Football news from the third round of the Football League Cup

David Coleman introduces the first in a new series of Sportsnight which has moved to Wednesday evening - the big midweek sports date.

Show-Jumping: The Horse of the Year Show from Wembley with the Basildon Bond Championship for the Leading Show Jumper of the Year.
Can Harvey Smith on Mattie Brown repeat the remarkable 1969 double of Ted Edgar and Uncle Max, who won this event and the King George V Gold Cup? Also the Daily Telegraph Cup.

Rugby Union: Fiji's big, unorthodox rugby union players open their 1970 tour of Britain at the County Ground Stadium, Exeter, against a combined Devon and Cornwall selection.

Boxing: Britain's young heavyweight hope Joe Bugner (29 fights: 27 wins, 2 defeats meets Argentina's experienced Eduardo Corletti (winner of five fights in Britain) over 10 rounds: last night's fight at the Royal Albert Hall.

(Sportsnight with a new look: p 4)