About

Christine Doan

Former Olympian equestrienne

Horse owner, Horse trainer

Dressage instructor, judge and examiner

Australia captured the heart and mind of a young horse-mad American girl as she came of age.  Christine Doan celebrated her 21^st birthday on the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland and never went home.  She calls herself a “refugee’’ from America, albeit a legal and willing one. 

Christine found the Tablelands as if by chance, an idyllic rural setting with a strong sense of family and community, with just the right mix of salt-of-the-Earth, arty, idealistic, environmentally aware and horse-y people to accommodate her on the next stage of her journey.  For more than 40 years this has been her home and she cares about it intensely.

Christine Doan is a citizen of the world, including:

·     running a refugee camp in Somalia in the 1970s

·     training with the world masters of dressage in Germany in the 1980s and 90s

·     learning to communicate with colleagues and friends around the world in their own languages

·     fighting for the environment in courts of law

·     investigating, testing and advocating alternative equine therapies

·     mentoring young sportspeople across four continents

·     discovering and developing two world grand prix dressage horses

·     attempting to formulate a prototype carbon sequestration scheme in the early 1990s

Christine has only one negative thing to say about her decision to turn property developer and strategize for the survival of a country town she loves. (www.malandanorth.com.au):  “I have too little time and energy for horses!’’

Christine is the only property developer we know of in Australia to start GREEN and add development.  (Most developers start with the bottom line and add green.)