{"id":1046,"date":"2010-12-11T11:04:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T01:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2011-01-12T09:46:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T23:46:34","slug":"equitana-sydney-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/equitana-sydney-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Equitana Sydney 10 &#8211; 13 November 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equitana\u00a0Australia has been held nearly every year since it began in Victoria in 1999.\u00a0 It was held in Melbourne in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010; and in Brisbane in 2002.\u00a0 (2007 Equitana Melbourne was cancelled due to the Equine Influenza outbreak.)<\/p>\n<p>It has just been announced that Equitana will\u00a0be held in Sydney for the first time, and alternate every year\u00a0between Melbourne and Sydney.\u00a0 The next Equitana will be held\u00a010-13 November 2011, at the Sydney Showground (where the Olympic Stadium is located).\u00a0\u00a0Equitana Sydney\u00a0will include the Equestrian Australia Grand\u00a0 Final, with dressage, jumping and modified eventing; plus the Australian grand finals for campdrafting, reining and cutting.<\/p>\n<p>There will be seating for more than 6,000 people, 250 stables and yards accommodating nearly 1,000 horses and 100 cattle.\u00a0 As it will be the first time Equitana has been held in Sydney,\u00a0attendance is expected to be huge.<\/p>\n<p>At present there are 4 hotels (nearly 700 rooms) very close to Sydney showgrounds (Homebush Bay) however anyone wanting to stay within walking distance of Equitana Sydney 2011\u00a0would be wise to book accommodation as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equitana\u00a0Australia has been held nearly every year since it began in Victoria in 1999.\u00a0 It was held in Melbourne in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010; and in Brisbane in 2002.\u00a0 (2007 Equitana Melbourne was cancelled due to the Equine Influenza outbreak.) It has just been announced that Equitana will\u00a0be held in Sydney for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,12,64],"tags":[239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"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=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}