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144th Beenleigh Show program

Gates open 9am

Judging:

  • goats – dairy
  • goats – miniature
  • dogs
  • horses – led and ridden
  • show jumping
  • sheep
  • canaries
  • budgerigars

Pavilion exhibits:

  • cookery
  • horticulture
  • art
  • photography
  • old colletables
  • patchwork
  • education: creative writing, art, languages
  • spinning and weaving, including demonstations
  • fruit and vegetable preservation demonstration, 3pm

Attractions:

  • live music
  • sample bags
  • side show rides and games
  • trade stall
  • Show food and drink
  • budgerigar information sessions, 12pm and 3pm
  • Dennis ‘Dingo’ Dryden
  • bush poetry entertainment, 4.30-6pm
  • Muddy River Bush Poet Competition, 9am-3pm

Evening – Main Arena

From 5pm:

  • The Stan (Lofty) Hodges Memorial Chop
  • Mick the Bush Galah
  • Woodchop/tree felling competition
  • Caviar Kelpies – sheep dog trials
  • Walter Whip and the Flames – whip cracking show

From 6pm:

  • bull ride and barrel race, 6pm
  • official welcome by show society president Peter Davidson, 7pm
  • bush ride and barrel race, 7.15pm
  • fireworks show, 8pm
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