After all, he has a tradition to maintain, never having missed a show in the event's 75 year history.
Mr Kane, who turns 95 on Tuesday, takes a more leisurely approach to his show experience these days - admiring the spectacle while cruising through the crowds on his mobility scooter. However, he has had plenty of past involvement in the competitive and administrative side of the event, including as president in 1973-74, and still recalls the district's excitement when the inaugural show was announced.
"John Hunt, the show's first president, and Dick Wilson, the manager of Wanaka Station, got up on stage at a dance at Hawea Flat and announced they were going to form a show," Mr Kane said.
"I can remember in the woolsheds they were arguing `Will we have it at Hawea or Wanaka?"'
Wanaka won the debate, and the show made its debut at the town's lakefront showgrounds on March 17, 1934. (It was put on hold for a few years during the war.) Mr Kane, aged 17 at the time, recalls leading a calf around the judging ring in that first show, then in later years, winning trophies for turnip-seed growing and his "fat lamb" entries. A "best ram" trophy bearing his name is still awarded.
Mr Kane's mother, Jean, was heavily involved with the home-industry section, regularly entering the "pound of butter" and "fancy butter" categories, while his wife, Elsie, who lives with him at Elmslie House in Wanaka, produced the show's prize-winning chocolate cake for "three or four years running".
Mr Kane recalled horses being ridden to the show the day before from throughout the district, as "there were no horse floats in those days", and the "great help" Wanaka Station was in providing horse paddocks for the event.
Cotter cow and Clydesdale stallion sections were hugely popular in the early show days, as was the rodeo entertainment.
"That lasted until one horse jumped out of the ring and he landed on an upmarket car so after that they got their own rodeo ground."
A post-show dance at the town hall, show princesses and ringside spectator car parking had also once featured, Mr Kane said.
Younger generations have continued to represent the Kane family at the show. Mr Kane's son Allan (68) won "best boy rider" as a youngster, has been involved in the sheep section and was president in 1985-86, before becoming equestrian gate marshall, which he still is today.
All Allan's children have ridden horses at the show and son Sam (34) has been a wool steward for the past five years.
The expected 18,000-plus crowd at this year's show was a huge increase on early figures, Mr Kane said.
"You hardly know anybody now. In those days, you sort of knew everybody in the district. It was always 'See you at the show'."
But he is still full of praise for the event, an annual highlight on his calendar.
"It just keeps getting better and better."
