The Coach with style

Tony Manca (above) has been coaching show jumping for a long time and it is clear that he loves his job. He was basically ‘born’ to do the job coming from a show jumping background and having represented his country, Italy, back in the 1970’s.

Tony’s impressive list of students include the likes of Kevin McNab, who he has taught for over 20 years and the young stylish Queenslad rider, Isabelle English, on whose property Tony is based.

   Isabel English, who is riding Adealdie 4* next week, shows off her show jumping style at Melbourne earlier this year
   Photo: Equine Images

We recently caught up with Tony to find out a little bit more about the coach who strongly believes that when it comes to winning, it’s important to do it in style.