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Shearing Them Around: 11 Shearing Records In 2024

Tuesday, 24 December 2024, 9:33 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A record year of World sheep shearing records has ended with Australian shearer Nicki Guttler’s breaking of a new mark that had been in place just 35 days. Guttler, who was third in a women’s event at the Golden Shears in Masterton in March, shore ... More >>

Te Whiringa - The First Senior Shearing Circuit In More Than A Decade

Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 9:09 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Te Whiringa Senior Shearing Circuit has been developed by the Waimarino Shears committee, and will be contested over 10 rounds and a final, at the committe's annual competition in Raetihi. More >>

Supafly And Fellow Flyers Tackle Shearing Record

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 7:32 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A speedshear king who commonly shears sheep at under 25 seconds each in competition is now looking for a bit of moderation as he joins two long-time shearing mates to tackle a World record in a Manawatu-Whanganui woolshed tomorrow (Wednesday). Jimmy ... More >>

Welsh-Kiwi Combo Falls In Shot Oin World Sheep Shearing Record Bid

Sunday, 15 December 2024, 10:00 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

An attempt will be made on the three-stand strongwool lambs record for eight hours near Hunteville on December 18, and Skiffington’s nine-hours attempt will take place near Dannevirke on January 20. More >>

A Boost For Show Shearing In The North

Sunday, 8 December 2024, 10:54 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A new step to boost shearing competition entries in the Northland shows has proven to be an early success with more than 30 competitors shearing at the Whangarei A and P Show on Saturday. The 36 entries, from 31 shearers, including veterans, were ... More >>

Welsh And Kiwi Shearers Team Up For World Record Bid

Sunday, 8 December 2024, 10:52 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

At stake is the World two-stand, eight-hours strongwool lambs record of 1410 set on January 4, 2023 by Simon Goss and Jamie Skiffington in the Goss family’s Mangamahu Valley woolshed northeast of Whanganui. More >>

New Shears Event For Young Shearers In Northland

Sunday, 8 December 2024, 10:47 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Novice, Junior and Intermediate shearers will compete in a single event based on handicap, with a first prize of $500, $250 for second and money down to fifth place. More >>

A Thousand Kilometres For A Shearing Win

Sunday, 1 December 2024, 4:15 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand’s top-ranked Open shearer last season has made a successful one-day 1000km round trip from Northland to launch a new campaign at the Taranaki Shears. Toa Henderson left home in Kaiwaka, near Whangarei, at 5am on Saturday, arrived at ... More >>

Wins For National Champs, At Tapanui And Nelson

Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 10:03 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The red ribbons went to Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford, who has now won the West Otago A and P Show’s Open final at Tapanui 16 times in 23 years, and Marlborough gun Angus Moore, who won the Nelson A and P Show Open title for a fifth time in eight ... More >>

National Corriedale Shearing Champs

Monday, 11 November 2024, 8:24 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Competition organisers say that while online entries have closed, entries will be taken up to “on the day". “Just buy your gate pass and enter here at the Lister Shearing and Woolhandling Stadium on the day.” More >>

Kirkpatricks In Charge At Wairarapa Spring Shears

Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 6:23 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Just as they had at the Gisborne Shears which kicked-off the competition season at Poverty Bay A and P Show on Oct 18, Master Shearer John Kirkpatrick won Open shearing final, crew Bruce Grace, won the Senior final, and Jodiesha Kirkpatrick won both ... More >>

Flying Roberts Wins Shears In Ashburton, And Leaves For Aussie

Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 4:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Crossing the Tasman he will miss such events as next weekend’s Get to the Point Pleasant Point Shears and the November 14-15 Canterbury Shears New Zealand Corriedale Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Christchurch. More >>

Mutch Holds It Together For Great Raihania Shears Win

Monday, 28 October 2024, 1:32 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Laura Bradley, of Papatawa, also in Southern Hawke’s Bay, moved a step closer to becoming the first female to be promoted to Open class based on wins in Senior competition when she won the Senior final over eight sheep each. More >>

Blades Shearers Hold Up The Kiwis' End In Transtasman Tests

Monday, 28 October 2024, 1:25 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand’s one win came in the blades shearing test of two merinos and two crossbred sheep each, with Tony Dobbs, of Fairlie, and Tim Hogg, of Timaru, beating Australians Johnathon Dalla (S.A.) and Andrew Murray (NSW) by 3.5pts. More >>

Familiar Faces Claim The Red Ribbons At Gisborne Show Shears

Monday, 28 October 2024, 11:56 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Having undergone significant shoulder surgery last summer, but back shearing by the end of the season, Kirkpatrick was claiming his first win since being made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum More >>

Kiwis Chase Elusive Shears Cleansweep In Australia

Monday, 28 October 2024, 11:41 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The internationals will take place during the Australian National Shearing and Woolhandling Championships which start on Friday in Katanning, about 280km southeast of Perth, and end on Sunday. More >>

Shear Class As Australia Beats NZ 2-1 In Wool Test Matches

Monday, 28 October 2024, 10:02 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Transtasman series newcomer and King Country shearer Jack Fagan, whose father sheared in 12 transtasman tests, was first to finish the match of six merinos and six crossbred sheep each on Sunday. More >>

Bleades Shearing Test In Waimate

Friday, 11 October 2024, 9:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The machine shearers and woolhandlers will then have test matches at the 2025 Golden Shears in Masterton. More >>

Big Entry In National Shearing Circuit

Thursday, 10 October 2024, 2:49 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

But it’s a quick turnaround, competitors chasing the circuit fronting-up for the second round on strongwool ewes at the Waimate Spring Shears shearing and woolhandling championships in South Canterbury on Saturday. More >>

Emotional Shears Win For Otago Veteran

Sunday, 6 October 2024, 3:20 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Veteran Otago shearer Chris Vickers has had possibly his biggest moment in 37 years of shearing by winning the 63rdNew Zealand Merino Shears Open final in Alexandra on Saturday night. The win came in a six-man final with the opposition comprising ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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