Equitana was an amazing experience – meeting people during the day, and attending events at night.\u00a0 A highlight for me was seeing the ‘All Star Showcase’ on Thursday night, the Grand Prix Dressage on Saturday night\u00a0and the show jumping final on the last day.\u00a0 Which a Queenslander won.\u00a0 One of the commentators remarked early on that it was good to see that the only two clear rounds were made by Victorian showjumpers.\u00a0 The fact that his comment was greeted with deathly silence illustrated that the majority of people attending Equitana were actually from outside Victoria, so they were not of course excited by the prospect of a Victorian rider winning!\u00a0<\/p>\n
These were must-see events which included Australia’s best riders in all sorts of disciplines and three Olympians\u00a0 – William Fox-Pitt, eventing, UK; Steffen Peters, dressage,\u00a0Germany\/USA;\u00a0 and Wendy Schaeffer, eventing, South Australia.\u00a0 However\u00a0 many people I spoke to were thrilled with the educational programmes, ‘schools’ and competitions which ran during the day – with the only complaint being that there was too much on to see (a good problem to have).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Equitana was an amazing experience – meeting people during the day, and attending events at night.\u00a0 A highlight for me was seeing the ‘All Star Showcase’ on Thursday night, the Grand Prix Dressage on Saturday night\u00a0and the show jumping final on the last day.\u00a0 Which a Queenslander won.\u00a0 One of the commentators remarked early on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}