Our photographers and reporters were out and about at the Wānaka A&P Show, held on Friday and Saturday.
The first day of the Wānaka A&P Show was picture perfect from the top of the Ferris wheel on Friday morning. The show spread across the showgrounds and rugby fields (foreground) and beyond to Pembroke Park. Mt Iron is in the background.
Upper Clutha girls (from left) Rosa, 6, and Elsie Baker, 10, and Maggie Hall, 9, set up a stall at the Wānaka A&P Show on Friday.
Judge Barry Macdonald, from Winton, inspects an entry from Duncraigen Herefords.
Posing with Jack Russell race winner Fred are father and son George and Archie Stewart. At the drop of the announcer’s hat on Saturday afternoon, attendees of the 87th Wānaka A&P show were treated to the time-honoured spectacle of more than 70 terriers tearing up the racetrack in every possible direction — a frenzy that race organiser Richard Burdon said was all "part of the fun".
"Only about 30% of the dogs finish. The other 30 are fighting, the other 30 are running in all sorts of directions."
He said while it would be reasonable to assume an event where contestants chased a dead rabbit pulled by a mounted officer would favour dogs with rabbit hunting experience, this was often not the case.
"The winning dog wasn’t a rabbiter, it didn’t chase rabbits. I would have thought a dog from Tarras or Cromwell would have won the race. But it always surprises me who wins."
Rams are organised into order during judging at the show.
