EQUITANA Asia Pacific

20 - 23 November 2008
EQUITANA Precinct at Melbourne Showgrounds
Melbourne, Australia

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Andrew McLean and Kush Prasad Dr Andrew McLean travels to Nepal

The Weekly Times WED 16 JUL 2008

Dr Andrew McLean is one of the experts who will be presenting daily education sessions at the event and discussing various horse training methods. While Dr McLean will be working with horses at Equitana, he recently travelled to Nepal as part of the World Wildlife Fund's Nepal Elephant Training Project. Here he applied the extensive knowledge he has learned with horse training to the training of elephants.

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"What's on" at EQUITANA

The competition arena program for EQUITANA Asia Pacific 2008 has been released. Click here to find out what clinics, evening entertainement and competitions are scheduled for each day.

Shea Fisher at Western Spectacular

Country girl Shea Fisher will be singing at the Western Spectacular, a night of western sports, on Friday 21st November 2008. The daughter of former Australian bull-riding champion Eddie Fisher has sung as long as she can remember. Living in New Mexico and Texas in the late '90s while her dad competed in big-league US rodeos, Shea fell under the spell of country music. On coming home, she toook to the rodeo circuit and concert stage in her own right, and has now been signed by ABC Music/Warner Music and released her first album "Everyday Girl" in July 2007.

CELEBRATING THE WORLD OF HORSES

EQUITANA Asia Pacific is Australia’s largest international multi disciplined equine festival that brings the entire equine community together in four action packed days of education, competition, exhibition and entertainment featuring some of the world’s high profile equine personalities.

Featured over the 4 days will be:

Competition
Two purpose built competition arenas will host World Cup Dressage and Showjumping, Western Pleasure, Carriage Driving, Reining, Saddlehorse, Mounted Games, Polo, Campdrafting, and Barrel Racing.
The Australian Judging panel will be joined by members from Germany, the USA, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

Education
Specialist Clinics presented by leading international presenters including the Parelli’s from the USA, Danish Dressage Champion Andreas Helgstrand and Australian Olympic contenders Heath Ryan (dressage), Clayton and Lucinda Fredericks (eventing),Chris Chugg (showjumping). More than 200 education sessions will cover a wide variety of topics including, trick riding, veterinary and dental care, natural horsemanship, classical training, breed displays and many more

Exhibition
Over 15,000 sqm will host approximately 300 exhibitors creating an equine shopping paradise. New products will be launched with companies from Dubai, New Zealand, England, Pakistan, the USA, Indonesia and China, hoping to break into the Australian Equine market.

Entertainment
Three nights of action packed entertainment with specialist performances by Danish dressage champion Andreas Helgstrand, Australia’s leading classical didgeridoo player William Barton, world renowned violinist Chris Latham, Australian horseman Guy McLean, Western Star and singer song writer Shea Fisher, Canadian Rodeo Clown Dennis Halstead and many more.