0 a competition in the sport of showjumping that tests how high horses can jump over special fences or walls:
They are due to compete in April's British Open Show Jumping Championship, which features international showjumping classes, including the Puissance, where riders face the famous wall - often 7ft high.
Morrissey and Scaraberas finished third this past summer at a Puissance in Dublin in driving rain.
The success of the TV show has revived interest in the sport, and puissance is the hardcore event of showjumping -a sort of equestrian fundamentalism.
Third place went to Norway's Geir Gulliksen on the puissance specialist Alex, who stopped once at the wall before clearing it at the second attempt.
How may I serve the valiant and noble lord whose puissance causes Videssos to tremble?
He plays a cruel-mouthed politician, nastily witty, and for all his apparent smooth sang-froid, inwardly impassioned with the puissance of his position.
After all, it seems inadequate to locate all the sources of our puissance in infancy, as if layers of consciousness acquired since then didn't count.
I chide my children every day to teach them the magic puissance and power of the word "sorry".
