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Golden Shears Cancelled For Second Time
Wednesday, 8 December 2021, 1:55 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World-famed shearing and woolhandling championships the Golden Shears has been cancelled for a second time because of the uncertainty of the Coronavirus crisis. Held annually for 60 years in Masterton’s War Memorial Stadium, the championships were to have ... More >>
All Go For Duvauchelle, But Taihape Cancels
Tuesday, 23 November 2021, 3:47 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A determination to keep alive a century and a half of rural community tradition could see a small Banks Peninsula settlement setting a path for A and P shows in the pandemic fightback early in the new year. The Duvauchelle A and P Show, including ... More >>
Obit For Shearing Champ Tom Brough
Monday, 22 November 2021, 8:53 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A shearing great died on Sunday More >>
Shearing Sports Battling The Odds In Covid-19 Crisis
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 7:41 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Southland Shears and national crossbred lambshearing and woolhandling championships will go ahead on January 15, despite the cancellation of the A and P Show. That’s the promise of convener, Shearing Sports South Island chairman and Shearing Sports ... More >>
New Zealand Corriedale Shearing Championships - Day 2
Sunday, 14 November 2021, 5:50 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand Corriedale Championships senior shearing winner, from Aria, Russell Ratima, pictured when he won the New Zealand Winter Comb title on merinos last month. Photo / Barbara Newton Caption - Angus Moore (3).JPG Marlborough shearer Angus Moore, ... More >>
The Master In Control - Henare Regains Canterbury Shears Title
Friday, 12 November 2021, 5:55 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Master Woolhandler Joel Henare clocked-up another milestone in Christchurch today (Thursday) when he became only the second person to complete a treble of the three pre-Christmas national Open woolhandling titles. The 28-year-old Gisborne woolshed ... More >>
Marlborough And Pleasant Point Shearing Championships
Sunday, 7 November 2021, 5:43 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
From Doug Laing, Media Officer, Shearing Sports New Zealand Samuels makes a point at Pleasant Point Defending national shearing circuits champion Leon Samuels showed he’s in the right sort of form for another national title bid when he won the Pleasant ... More >>
Colin King Shield - The Ranfurly Shield Of Shearing
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 10:31 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A trophy named after a champion shearer who became a Member of Parliament will go on the line for the first time at the Marlborough A and P Show shearing championships in Blenheim on Saturday. The Colin King Challenge Shield, set to become the Ranfurly ... More >>
Ashburton Worth The Trip For Southland Shearing Gun
Sunday, 31 October 2021, 5:53 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A 1000km round-trip weekend drive paid-off for Southland shearer Brett Roberts with a successful defence of the Ashburton A and P Show Open title as the 2021-2021 shearing sports season resumed on Saturday. Roberts won the title for the first time in 2019, ... More >>
It Ain't Easy To Beat A Southern Man
Sunday, 10 October 2021, 5:53 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The mighty southern men of shearing stepped-up yet again to take the first three placings in the New Zealand Spring Shears Open crossbred fullwool shearing championship final in Waimate on Saturday. The six-man final over 16 sheep each was won by Invercargill ... More >>
Trojan Effort Nails Pyper's Shearing Title
Friday, 8 October 2021, 2:54 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Gun Southland and North Canterbury shearer Troy Pyper has today(Friday) won his second New Zealand Winter Comb Open title. The win came on the opening day of the two-day Waimate Shears in South Canterbury, where, just as he did when the title ... More >>
There's Still Plenty Of Shearing To Come - Let's Go!
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 11:30 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Rangiora Shears are off despite attempts to avoid cancellation for a second year in a row. But while it becomes the seventh competition to be cancelled pre-Christmas, nine others are still going ahead. Among the current survivors are just two in the ... More >>
Another Show Cancelled
Wednesday, 6 October 2021, 11:38 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Pongaroa shearer David Buick clocks out at the end of the Central Hawke's Bay Open shearing final last year. It was the first win in a season which won him No 1 ranking in the top grade nationwide. This year the show has become one of the latest casualties ... More >>
Manawatu, Ellesmere Join List Of Shearing Competition Cancellations
Tuesday, 5 October 2021, 1:37 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The shearing sports season has suffered another blow with the cancellation of shearing at the Ellesmere A and P Association’s 150th anniversary Selwyn Show. The association decided on Monday night some events at a downscaled show at Leeston on October 16 ... More >>
Happy Anniversary As Stratford Nails Merino Title
Sunday, 3 October 2021, 6:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Nathan Stratford at AlexandraInvercargill shearer Nathan Stratford on his way to winning the New Zealand Merion Shears Open shearing title for a fifth time at Alexandra on Saturday. Photo / Barbara Newton Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford didn’t ... More >>
Shearing Champs "general Dog's Body" - For Life
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 3:09 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It’ll be all hands on deck at the New Zealand Merino Shears in Central Otago town Alexandra on Friday and Saturday as organisers strive to stage the 60th annual event in the confines of the pandemic Level 2 alert. Almost all of the championships society’s ... More >>
Shearing Events
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 9:41 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand’s two big season-opening shearing and woolhandling championships are going ahead under the constraints of the pandemic Level 2 competitions. More >>
World Shearing Record
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 8:34 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A glamour shearing record once the domain of New Zealand’s best has been broken in the UK for the second time in five years by a shearer averaging one lamb every 37.16 seconds over 9 hours. Oxfordshire shearer Stu Connor completed the record attempt ... More >>
Helping Hands From Downunder In UK World Shearing Record Bid
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 6:31 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
English shearer and World record hopeful Stu Connor at work early Today (Tuesday) New Zealand time, preparing for a bid to shear more than 867 lambs in more than 9 hours, starting 4pm Wednesday NZST (UK 5am). PHOTO / HUW CONDRON The New Zealand ... More >>
New Names At The Top Of Shearing Sports Rankings
Monday, 12 April 2021, 5:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
From left Shearing Sports New Zealand chairman Sir David Fagan and 2020-2021 No 1-ranked competitors Reuben King (Junior shearing), Adam Gordon (Intermediate shearing), Rahera Kerr (Junior woolhandling), Azuredee Paku (Senior woolhandling), and Pagan ... More >>
