Wednesday at the Canterbury A & P Show

Wednesday 12 November is day one of Canterbury’s much loved event, the Canterbury A&P Show. Day one highlights are below.

Judging Highlights
9.00am on Beef & Dairy Cattle Breed Judging – The ANZ Lawn
10.45-11.00am Supreme Champion In Hand Pony – Main Arena
2.00pm Grand Champions & Supreme Champions (Merino) - Alliance NZ Sheep Arena
2.00-3.00pm All Breeds Supreme Award (Horse) – Main Arena
3.30pm Meat Wool Cup (Sheep) – Alliance NZ Sheep Arena
4.30pm Mint Lamb Competition Taste Test Judging – Sheep Exhibitors’ Club

Entertainment Highlights
10am-2pm Shearing Demonstrations & Children’s Shearing – Shearing Pavilion
11am, 1 and 3pm Captain Festus McBoyle – Tip Top Stage
12pm and 1pm Salmonella Dub - Village Green
11.30am Zilco Scurry NZ Racing – Main Arena
1.00pm Machinery Parade – Main Arena
1.15pm Hillmorton High Lawn Mower Racing – Main Arena
3.15pm In Hand Horse and Pony Parade – Main Arena

Shearing Demonstrations & Children’s Shearing
The competitive action in the Shearing Pavilion kicks off on Thursday with Woolhandling followed by Machine and Blade Shearing on Friday. Wednesday’s programme includes all day shearing demonstrations with children encouraged to take to the boards and give it a go, albeit with stuffed toy sheep.

Salmonella Dub
The Village Green will be rocking when multi-platinum and gold selling artists Salmonella Dub take to the stage at 12 and 2pm. This will be the entire band’s first outing together since 2012. Country music’s Jody Direen and Christchurch band Nomad will also be taking to the stage throughout the day.

Fun for the kids
Children can Have a Go at agriculture with AgriKidsNZ, see Boris a real T-55AM2 Tank in action, star in their own spy movie on the Tip Top Children’s Lawn and pat the animals in the Mike Greer Homes City Farmyard

Zilco Scurry NZ Racing
Scurry racing is horses or ponies in carts, racing against the clock around a course of cones with balls balanced on top. Knocking a ball off incurs a 2 second time penalty. The fastest after adding any penalties wins. Top level drivers need to be highly skilled with both speed and accuracy being required to win. Scurry racing is fast, exciting and easy to follow. It is a great spectator sport and has been an attraction at European country shows for many years. Recent World Champion, Cherie Stalker, will be competing at the Show.

Mint Lamb Competition
Farmers from throughout New Zealand were invited to showcase their quality lamb and compete in the 2014 Mint Lamb Competition.Lambs were initially judged for yield and then tender tested resulting in 12 finalists. The finalists will be taste tested at 4.30pm with the winner announced following the judging. The taste test judging is hosted by Jamie Mackay from radio’s The Farming Show.

This year’s Canterbury A&P Show will be held Wednesday 12 to Friday 14 November at Canterbury Agricultural Park in Christchurch. It’s the largest A&P Show in the country attracting 100,000 people, close to 6500 livestock and feature competition entries and 550 trade exhibitors.

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