All invited to top horse lovers' show

TICKETS to the horse lovers' heaven -- Equitana Asia Pacific -- have gone on sale. With tickets priced from $28 for general admission, there is something to suit all budgets at the November 20-23 event. The Super Ticket will allow people to attend every day and night of exhibitions, entertainment and clinics. This ticket is $260 for adults and $245 for children or concession card-holders and, represents savings of more than $200.

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.This is the fourth year that Dr McLean has been involved with Equitana and he will be giving demonstrations on the most up-to-date equine behaviour science and training techniques over the four days. Dr McLean developed and manages the Australian Equine Behaviour Centre (AEBC).

Also involved in Equitana this year is the AEBC's Warwick McClean, who will be competing in The Way of the Horse competition where three horse breakers will be given a limited amount of time to habituate their un-handled young horses to being ridden.

The Weekly Times WED 16 JUL 2008