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Henderson Claims The Double, With 25 Sheep In Under 20 Minutes
Sunday, 30 March 2025, 3:45 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Henderson won his first Golden Shears final over 20 sheep, in Masterton four weeks ago and stepped up to a new challenge by shearing the first 25-sheep final in more than three decades in 19m 57.44s. More >>
Abraham Regains NZ Shears Open Speed Shear Title
Saturday, 29 March 2025, 9:02 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Abraham had to wait nine years to add to his back to back pair of 2015 and 2016 and the victory came with the dreaded “DQ” for Welsh shearer Llyr Jones who shore the four-man final of two sheep each in 41sec, at first looking like a win by 1.29sec ... More >>
A Ladies Day At The Shearing, But A Bloke Still Wins
Friday, 28 March 2025, 1:34 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The championships continued on Friday with heats in the lower grades of shearing and woolhandling and the women’s event, with some finals in the evening, and a shearing test between New Zealand and Wales, the championships culminating with the ... More >>
Shearing Test Match A Feature Of National Championships
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 11:00 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
There’s particular rivalry in the Open woolhandling championship where Motueka-based 10 times Golden Shears Open champion Joel Henare, from Gisborne, will be trying to reclaim the New Zealand title he won four times between 2010 and 2017. More >>
New Zealand Shears Circuit
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:52 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Fagan in line to defend Circuit title in home-town Te Kuiti More >>
Another Big Loss For Wales - At Shearing
Sunday, 16 March 2025, 9:56 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It was a big day for the town with 99 shearers competing across the five grades, including 34 in the glamour Open grade, with 97 volunteers helping run the competition held alongside the town’s annual rodeo. More >>
NZ V Wales Shearing Test This Weekend
Friday, 14 March 2025, 10:51 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Mate v mate as Kiwis chase revenge in shears test match More >>
Henderson's Weekend Double - A Show Title And The Rural Games Speed Shear
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 8:37 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Just a week after the biggest success of his career in Masterton, Kaiwaka’s favourite gun shore the six-man 20-sheep final in Kumeu on Saturday in 16m 2.09s, pipping Te Kuiti gun Jack Fagan by just 1.63 seconds. More >>
Two Goldies Winners Shine At Cheviot
Monday, 10 March 2025, 8:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Henare is now on target for a 10th No 1 Open woolhandling ranking when the certificates are handed-out at the New Zealand Shears in Te Kuiti on March 27-29, with he and seven-times No 1 Keryn Herbert, of Te Kuiti, each having five wins this season. More >>
Axle Grinds Way To First Open Shearing Win
Monday, 10 March 2025, 8:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Axle Reid, who is also a qualified shearing judge, is shearing for Grant Smith, having decided to go south as the work eased-off in Hawke’s Bay, and plans to do other shows in the area. More >>
Big Miles Pay Off For Northland New Shearing Star
Sunday, 2 March 2025, 7:50 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
34-year-old Henderson won with remarkable comfort in a final that started wide-open after the elimination of defending champion Leon Samuels, eight-times winner Rowland Smith, four-times winner John Kirkpatrick and 2015 victor Gavin Mutch in the quarterfinals ... More >>
New Winner In The Wimbledon Of Shearing
Saturday, 1 March 2025, 7:42 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The final, of 20 sheep each and starting about 9.30pm, will be the last of five events on the final night of the 63rd Golden Shears, preceded by the National Shearing Circuit final, a Transtasman shearing test match, the Golden Shears Open woolhandling final, ... More >>
Revenge For Black Shirts In Trannstasman Woolhandling
Saturday, 1 March 2025, 5:33 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand has now won 37 of the 49 tests between the two nations since transtasman woolhandling matches began in 1998. More >>
Big Local Win In Golden Shears Speedshear
Friday, 28 February 2025, 4:56 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
With former winners Jack Fagan, of Te Kuiti, and fellow Masterton shearer Paerata Abraham eliminated along the way - with a combined total of well over 100 speedshear wins between them - Chris Dickson shore the first of the crutched and bellied sheep ... More >>
Young Guns In Charge On Goldies Opening Day
Friday, 28 February 2025, 6:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Char Taylor, based in Cheviot and learning the craft in the woolsheds of North Canterbury, won the Novice woolhandling final Thursday, the first day of the three-day championships. More >>
Golden Moment For Young Hopes As Golden Shears Start In Masterton
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 7:00 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The biggest entries are in the shearing with 74 in the Novice grade and 72 Juniors, while in the Novice grade 25 have been listed in the Novice event and 47 in the Junior grade, among them Gisborne teenager Jodiesha Kirkpatrick having two goes at a “Goldies”, ... More >>
Women's World Shearing Record: Team Alexia Does It Inn Merino Shearing Record In West Australia
Sunday, 23 February 2025, 2:58 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The record took place at Spring Valley Farm, Darkan, about 200km southeast of Perth More >>
Women's Shearing Record Under Way In West Australia
Saturday, 22 February 2025, 3:04 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Alexia (“Lexi”) Phillips, from Waikato, is attempting the women’s solo eight-hours merino ewes record at Spring Valley Farm, Darkan, about 200km southeast of Perth. More >>
Golden Shears Entries Pass 400 As Big Annual Festival Looms
Friday, 21 February 2025, 9:07 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Entries are expected to increase even more next year when the programme extends to four days to include the 2026 World Championships. More >>
Early Start For Golden Shears Punters
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 8:55 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The shearing circuit, which tests the versatility of shearers over five different wool types, started with a possible record 38 entries when the first round was held at the New Zealand Merino (finewool) championships in Alexandra in late-September. More >>
