Feature Events
Vintage Car Parade
Race Track
10.30 am
Massed Bands March Past
Heavy Arena
11.45 am
Chieftain’s Welcoming Ceremony
Main Stage
12.00 pm
Massed Scottish Country Dance
We want everyone to join in a specially choreographed Scottish Country Dance. Instructional video to come!
Heavy Arena
12.30 pm
Best Dressed Lad & Lassie
Register by 11.45am @ the merchandise stall in the Hororata marquee – Free
Duncan Cotterill Stage
1.00 pm
Hororata Pie Eating Competition
Register by 12.30 pm @ Pie Cart
Duncan Cotterill Stage
2.15 pm
FMG Kilted Mile
Register by 1.30 pm @ Event Info
Race Track
2.45 pm
Hororata Stones
Heavy Arena
4.00 pm
Competition Programme
All competitions break for lunch 11.40 am – 12.50 pm
Solo Piping & Drumming Competition
Band Arena
8.45 am – 11.00 am
Highland Dancing Competition
Main Stage
9.00 am – 3.30 pm
Harraways Junior Warriors Inter-Schools Competition
Junior Warriors Arena
9.00 am – 11.30 am
Heavy Championships
Heavy Arena
9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Fern Tug O’ War Heats
Tug O’ War Arena
10.00 am – 3.00 pm
Pipe Band Competition
Band Arena
11.00 am – 4.00 pm
Have a Go Programme
All Have A Go activities will break for lunch 11.40 am – 12.50 pm
FREE for 15 years and over – Caber Toss, Sandbag challenge and Farmers Walk.
Have a Go Arena
9.00 am – 3.30 pm
FREE for children under the age of 14 years to Have A Go at Caber Toss, Haggis Hurl, Farmers Walk, Stone Put
Read more Junior Warriors Arena
12.30 pm– 3.30 pm
A Highland Challenge
Open to teams of five to enter by 12pm on the day, FREE
Race Track
11.00am – 12.00pm
1.00pm – 2.40pm
Hororata Target Shooting Club Have A Go
Try small bore file shooting in the Hororata Rifle Club target range.
Rifle Club Stall 30
9.30 am – 4.00 pm
NewZengland Archery
Open to all ages to have a go at archery. $5 for 5 arrows.
Behind the Duncan Cotterill Stage
9.30 am – 3.30 pm
Tugging Rig
Free for all ages to Have A Go – FREE
The ROCK Stall 118
9.30 am – 4.00 pm
Have A Go at playing the at the Pipes
Free thanks to the Ellesmere Pipe Band
Band Arena
11.00 am– 3.00 pm
Spinning & Wool Craft Demonstrations/Have A Go
Watch as the master spinners race to spin wool and knit a jersey in 6 hours.
Scottish Farmyard
9.30 am – 3.00 pm
Entertainment Programme
Clans represented & Genealogy
Discover your Scottish heritage. Live music and more, a must visit.
St Andrews Square
9.00 am – 4 pm
City of Christchurch Pipe Band
Entertaining at various locations around the venue
Various Locations
9.30 am – 3.30 pm
Medieval combat demonstrations
Every hour and to try your hand at a variety of medieval skills with the Society for Creative Anachronism
SCA Arena
9.30 am – 4.00 pm
Sheep Shearing Demonstrations
Machine and blade.
Scottish Farmyard
10.30am, 1.00pm, 2.00pm, 3.00pm
Scottish Country Dancing Demonstrations
South end track
10.45am & 2.00 pm
Duncan Cotterill Stage Programme
Irish Dancing Demonstrations
Duncan Cotterill Stage
10.15 am – 10.45 am
Southern Celtic Fiddle Orchestra performance
Duncan Cotterill Stage
11.00 am – 11.40 am
Best Dressed Lad and Lassie
Duncan Cotterill Stage
1.00pm – 2.15pm
Hororata Pie Eating Competition
Duncan Cotterill Stage
2.15 pm – 2.40pm
