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 in Hobart, Perth, Margaret River, Adelaide, Canberra and Albury. Manuela is also in great demand in New Zealand, visiting 5-6 times per year.
Manuela co-developed the AEBC training system and in 2002, co-authored "Horse Training the McLean Way". Most recently Andrew and Manuela released 'Academic Horse Training', a true masterpiece in equine literature, along with a series of three complimenting DVDs. A national coach of dressage, her focus is on teaching riders how to train and maintain the basics in their horses, creating a true foundation for higher level dressage. Manuela herself has recently competed successfully on her ten-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 FEI, EFA, HRCAV and Pony Club levels and she has helped many riders to realise their, and their horses full potential. Among her pupils, past and present, are well-known Grand Prix Rider and rider Kate Boyes, Grand Prix Rider and Trainer Warwick McLean and current New Zealand Grand Prix champion and Horse of the Year winner, Jodie Hartstone.
Manuela McLean with DaVinity
Manuela compeeting on Axel III at Werribee Park. Below; At the International Symposium for Equitation Science, AEBC 2005
