Riding instruction from English expert

Press, 10 January 1986, Page 21

Riding instruction from English expert

A renowned internationalpony club riding instructorfrom England, Sue Mac Allan, will conduct clinics for North Canterbury riders and instructors at the Rangiora Showgrounds on January 25 and 26. This is part of her programme of seminars which she is conducting in New Zealand this month and next. Her lecture tour of six weeks will also include a clinic at the Timaru Showgrounds on January 17. Miss Mac Allan, who is a qualified British Horse Society Instructor, will conduct the 1986 Eqvalan Instructors’ Clinics at the invitation of the New Zealand

Pony Club Association, through a major programme of financial support for the pony club movement from MSD AGVET. Miss Mac Allan began formal equestrian training at the age of 17, and gained her pony club ‘A’ test and the British Horse Society instructor’s qualification by the age of 21, which made her the youngest fullyfledged instructor in Britain at the time. Her initial training was at the Tailard School of Equitation and she took her big test at the Porlock Vale Riding School. After a period in student training and competition

yards as yard manager and chief instructor, she became a freelance instructor based in southern England, where she concentrates on training riders on their own horses, particularly for eventing and dressage. Miss Mac Allan’s work has involved her at all levels of the movement from instructing beginners, to instructing and lecturing senior instructors throughout England. Her visit to New Zealand is the second by an international instructor under the MSD AGVET programme, and follows the successful visit by the 1985 Eqvlan Instructor, Tessa Martin-Bird.