Equestrian - EQUITANA Auckland Parade And Launch
Equestrian - EQUITANA Auckland Parade And Launch
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WHAT: EQUITANA
Auckland Street Parade and Launch
WHEN: Tuesday,
November 21
WHERE: Departing Forte Street
12.30pm and arriving at Aotea Square at 1pm.From 1pm until
2pm there will be a teaser performance for EQUITANA
Auckland’s evening Programmes featuring our stars.
WHY:
Have a sneak peek at some of the star presenters, performers
and competitors taking part in the inaugural EQUITANA
Auckland.
EQUITANA Auckland is just around the corner and
we’re inviting you to head down to our launch on Tuesday,
November 21.
The parade kicks off at Forte Street, moving
along Queen Street, Mayoral Drive and Greys Avenue, and
finishing at Aotea Square where there will be a chance to
have a few words with world class eventer Andrew Nicholson,
watch the extraordinary Tui Teka and his horse Kingston,
also featuring The Wilson Sisters’ Vicki Wilson with her
Road to the Horse mount Kentucky, get a glimpse of
what Tina Fagen will present at EquiMana, among other
surprises.
• EQUITANA Auckland will be the biggest
international equine event ever seen in New Zealand, and is
being held at the ASB Showgrounds from November 23-26,
2017.
• It is from the same stable as the
internationally lauded EQUITANA Germany and EQUITANA
Melbourne.
• Orgnaisers are bringing some of the
biggest stars across the disciplines – Germany’s Olympic
team gold medal winning dressage coach Jonny Hilberath,
America’s ‘most trusted’ horseman John Lyons, world
class showjumping trainer Rod Brown from Australia and of
course, former number one, eventer Andrew
Nicholson.
• The inaugural ‘NZ Open’ crowns will be
contested in showjumping, dressage freestyle to music and
grand prix dressage, as well as polo and express
eventing.
• Four person teams from Australia and New
Zealand will go head to head in both dressage and
showjumping to win the ‘Bledisloe Cup’ of each
discipline. There will be one from each country in each
discipline, with points accumulated for placings.
• New
Zealand also takes on Australia for trans Tasman bragging
rights in The Way of The Horse – a hugely popular horse
starting competition. Four horse men and women have four
hours over the four days to take a horse from wild to
willing.
• Teams are coming from across the globe to
compete in the U17 World Mounted Games Team
Championship.
• More than 200 shopping sites from
across Australasia.
• Evenings that will redefine
equestrian entertainment on all four nights.
• More
than 30 international educators – from Australia, Canada,
the US, Germany and NZ – running sessions across the four
days.
• To run such top-flight competition, five arenas
will be created, with more than 90 truck and trailer units
bringing in the products for the
surfaces.