Manuela McLean

NCAS Level 2 (Dressage Specialist), BSc (biology), Dip Ed

Manuela McLean is a well-known dressage competitor who has produced and ridden horses to FEI level dressage and advanced Three Day Eventing. Based at the AEBC in Victoria, she teaches regularly at the AEBC, as well as in Geelong, and Tonimbuk, and has assisted her husband, Andrew in clinics in the UK, Belgium and Denmark. Manuela also conducts clinics ini Hobart, Perth, Margaret River, Adelaide, Canberra and Albury.

Manuela co-developed the AEBC training system and, in 2002, co-authored "Horse Training the McLean Way". A national coach of dressage, her focus is on teaching riders how to train and maintain the basics in their horses, creating a foundation for higher level dressage. Manuela herself has recently competed successfully on her five-year-old imported Hannoverian stallion, Da Vinity.

With pupils of all ages, levels and experience, Manuela is known for her patience, encouragement and persistence in her pursuit of excellence at all stages of training. Her teaching style is hallmarked by her passion and excitement at even the smallest of successes. In great demand as a teacher, Manuela has great talents, both for educating effectively and having an acute eye for identifying what is right and wrong with both horse and rider.

Her students have been successful at all EFA, HRCAV and Pony Club levels and she has helped many riders progress to Prix St George and above level. Among her pupils, past and present, are well-known Grand Prix trainer and rider Kate Boyes and current New Zealand Grand Prix champion, Jodie Hartstone on 'Landioso' and 'Donnerwind'.