2013 Nanango Show
River Run Charolais Guinness enjoys a shower from Brooke Grieve in preparation for a big Saturday at Nanango Show

April 20, 2012

Nanango Show Society is looking forward to a bumper 104th annual show on Saturday with top quality exhibits and forecasters tipping fine weather.

The quality of exhibits is high, and any early concerns that the Australia Day floods may have had an impact on this year’s show seem to have evaporated.

Friday’s events were a warm-up for the show’s main day on Saturday. They included Day 1 of the popular All Breeds Championship Dog Show, a Ute Muster, Young Judges and Young Handlers competitions, and the judging of pavilion entries.

On Saturday, the Show Society will pull out all stops to entertain the thousands of visitors expected to flow through the gates which will open at 7:00am.

There’ll be post-ripping and woodchopping competitions, ring events, an alpaca show, dairy goats, wood sculpting and a big sideshow alley.

One of the highlights this year is sure to be the daredevil motorcycle acrobatic team, FMX Kaos

The Grand Parade will be held at 1:30pm, and the rodeo will get underway at 3:00pm.

A full night of live entertainment will kick off about 6:00pm and run until midnight. The giant fireworks display is scheduled for 8:00pm.

Admission to this year’s Nanango Show is $12 for adults and $6 for pension card holders, children over 14 and unaccompanied children. Children under 14, accompanied by a paying adult, will be admitted for free.

[Photos by Clive Lowe Photography]

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Pavilion displays are of a very high quality this year; the Nanango Show Society says the Australia Day floods don’t seem to have had any adverse effects on show entries

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Krystle Cox shows off her Grand Champion print in the photography section

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Miss Nanango Show Runner-Up Louise Black took a tour of the Produce Stall
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Candy Smith from Kingaroy prepares her junior Murray Grey bull Shell-Dee-Dusty for the show

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Paula Morgan with her miniature silver poodle Bien Aime Lil Divine Diva

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Another Championship Dog Show entrant: Shokuma Covergirl, groomed by Jody Gibson
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Prime cattle judging will get underway at 7:00am on Saturday, followed by stud beef at 8:00am