Guy McLean
The Horseman from Susan River

Guy McLean is an accomplished, self taught, thinking horseman as well as two time Australian Bush Poetry Champion, culminating into a unique blend of Australian entertainment.

Through a complete love of horses and a burning desire to "find better ways" of building relationships with horses, not having to use force, instead, 'asking' them to do the job as a partner, Guy has developed his own training methods, trying something new every day as a new personality poses new problems to work through.

Guy's ultimate goal is to find a method that makes the most sense to the horse.  Guy believes that horses have been his greatest teacher.

Entering on horseback the crowd is greeted with the wide country smile of a true Australian and one of his well known performance horses Nugget, his buckskin quarter horse stallion who has been with Guy since he started performing in 1996. He is also often joined by one of his other wonderful horses Quietway Hope, Quietway Sequel, Quietway Teggun, Quietway Kenny and Quietway Spinabbey.

For 12 years now, crowds have sat back, laughed and cried along with Guy while he takes them on a journey of his own poetry, all held together with Guy's quick wit and fun loving crowd interaction, on top his horse Nugget.

The other horses come into play in Guy's Horsemanship demos when 1,2,3 or 4 horse acts are performed with a combination of bridleless and saddleless performances at liberty which helps Guy demonstrate his horsemanship methods that are currently being sought after all over Australia.

Guy and his team perform all over Australia in places such as The Sydney 2000/2001/2002 Royal Easter Show, where he performed daily, incorporating horsemanship, whip-cracking and poetry. In his night performances Guy entertained 24,000 people, in the Main Arena, over 14 days, performing Poetry in Motion, cantering Nugget (bridleless and saddleless) while reciting and portraying a horseman's adventure or a specially written show poem.

Other major performances include The Brisbane Ekka, performing nightly to crowds of up to 20,000 people, The Equitana Asia Pacific 1999/2001/2002/2003/2005 where, by day, he was one of the most sought after clinicians and by night he was entertaining, opening the "Mane Event" and the Corryong Man From Snowy River Festival, entertaining and showing his skills to some amazing horsemen in their own right.

Guy and Nugget had the prestigious honor of being the first horse and rider to grace the halls and walkways of the Longreach Hall of Fame. Guy also competed and won the "Red Faces" segment on one of the last episodes of 'Hey Hey it's Saturday' with an incredibly high score of 27 (8 from Red!)