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Ponytails For Export After Charity Shearing Head-shave
Saturday, 9 January 2021, 4:15 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
All cleaned-up, from left shearing crank grinder Alice Woolston, shearing legend Sir David Fagan and shaven Natalie Crisp after the charity event in Te Kuiti on Friday night. Photo / SSNZ Shearing legend Sir David Fagan has taken to the handpiece again ... More >>
Speedshears, Records And Shows
Saturday, 9 January 2021, 8:59 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Masterton shearer Paerata Abraham shearing his final lamb in 19.86 seconds. Photo / SSNZ Abraham gets big shearing week off to a flyer in Te Kuiti Masterton shearer Paerata Abraham has started a big week in shearing sports with three sub-20seconds ... More >>
Peninsula Duvauchelle Shears On Next Saturday
Monday, 4 January 2021, 7:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A scene from the Peninsula Duvauchelle Shears as regular competitor Shaun Burgess turns his hand to judging in the lower grades. PHOTO / SSNZ The Duvauchelle A and P Society hopes it has scored a few brownie points with the public by deciding to ... More >>
Counties Shears Cancelled, But The Other Shows Will Go On
Sunday, 3 January 2021, 11:53 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Last year's Counties Shears in Pukekohe highlighted the busy programme of New Zealand's top shearers with four of the Open finalists having competed in Gore less than 24 hours earlier, including winner Rowland Smith (left) and Jack Fagan. Photo / SSNZ ... More >>
Worth The Trip To Support A New Competition
Sunday, 6 December 2020, 2:57 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Te Kuiti Shearer Jack Fagan winning the first Whangarei A and P Open shearing title. Photo / SSNZ Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan got the ultimate reward for a bit of respect when he won the inaugural Whangarei A and P Shears Open shearing title on Saturday. ... More >>
Stratford Win For David Buick
Monday, 30 November 2020, 8:25 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Wairarapa shearer and New Zealand representative David Buick has crossed the North Island to claim his third Open title of the new shearing sports season. He travelled drove the 285km from Pongaroa to the Stratford A and P Show in about four hours before ... More >>
Tough At The Top At The Shears
Monday, 23 November 2020, 6:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two former Golden Shears Senior champions still finding slim pickings in the Open class after years and years of trying despite proving they can beat most of the best have each won in the last weekend –of pre-Christmas competition in the South Island. ... More >>
A Class Act As Buick Beats Champs In CHB Shears
Sunday, 15 November 2020, 2:39 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
David Buick finishes the Central Hawke's Bay A and P Shears final - 20 sheep at 49 seconds each, caught, shorn and dispatched. Photo / SSNZ Pongaroa shearer and farmer David Buick has again thrown-out the challenge to his fellow shearing elite ... More >>
Worth The Trip - Roberts Successfully Defends Street Shears Title
Monday, 9 November 2020, 8:30 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearers Brett Roberts and Nathan Stratford gained some petrol money for their round trip of over 1300km for two days on the competition circuit when they finished first and second in the Get to the Point Pleasant Point Gymkhana Shears ... More >>
Shearing Champs
Saturday, 7 November 2020, 3:19 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
On top of the South at last for Scots-Kiwi shearer Gavin Mutch Gavin Mutch in 2018 at the Golden Shears in Masterton, where he won a World title in 2012 and the Golden Shears Open in 2015. On Friday he won the New Zealand Corriedale championship at ... More >>
Canterbury Shears Ready To Start In New Woolshed Venue
Wednesday, 4 November 2020, 8:05 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A week before the big event about 20 shearers and woolhandlers gathered to prepare the sheep for the Canterbury Shears and New Zealand Corriedale Shearing and Woolhandling Championships. Photo: Supplied Organisers of the Canterbury Shears’ New Zealand ... More >>
World Champ Comes Home For Big Win In Gisborne
Sunday, 18 October 2020, 2:53 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Multiple World champion woolhandler Joel Henare returned to his home show in style when he regained the Open title as the Poverty Bay A and P Show Shears opened the shearing sports competition season in the North Island at the weekend. A near all-Gisborne ... More >>
A Standing Win For World Record 100 Blade Shearing Wins
Sunday, 11 October 2020, 6:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
South Canterbury farmer Tony Dobbs has shorn so many sheep a lack of recent practice barely seemed to matter in Waimate tonight as he became the first person in the World to win 100 Open bladeshearing finals. Jubilant Tony Dobbs after winning his 100th ... More >>
National Title To Shearer Troy Pyper
Friday, 9 October 2020, 9:34 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A close call but Pyper gets the nod in Winter Comb final North Canterbury-based Southland shearer Troy Pyper kicked-off the new shearing sports season with a win in the New Zealand Winter Comb Open final in Waimate today(Friday). Troy Pyper, pictured ... More >>
Bouncing Back From Covid, A Shear Opportunity
Friday, 9 October 2020, 6:45 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A new shearing and woolhandling competition season is under way hopes organisers have seen the back of the worst of the Covid-19 crisis which has led to the cancellation of several events on the calendar. The season comprises competitions at 51 venues ... More >>
Big Entries For Spring Shear In Waimate
Wednesday, 7 October 2020, 12:41 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
More than 170 shearers and woolhandlers are expected in South Canterbury town Waimate for the first event on the New Zealand shearing sports season on Friday and Saturday. The 53rd Waimate Shears New Zealand Spring Shearing Championships is one of the first ... More >>
All Shearing Competitions Cancelled
Thursday, 19 March 2020, 8:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The New Zealand Shearing Sports season is over with the cancellation of nine competitions which were scheduled for the next three weeks. The cancellations include six A and P shows, with confirmation on Wednesday that the Oxford and Mackenzie shows in the ... More >>
Shearing Competitions Hit By COVID-19 Crisis
Tuesday, 17 March 2020, 11:19 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Most of the remaining shearing sports competitions this season seem likely to be cancelled as the nation steps-up preventing the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. Four events on one of the busiest weekends of the season this Saturday and Sunday ... More >>
World Champ Kiwis Win Transtasman Wool Test
Saturday, 7 March 2020, 12:42 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World champion woolhandlers Sheree Alabaster and Pagan Karauria made it three from three together in the black teeshirt and a transtasman double for the season as they beat Australia in a woolhandling test match at the 60th Golden Shears in Masterton ... More >>
New “Goldies” Champ – This Is For My Mum
Friday, 6 March 2020, 4:55 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A new Golden Shears champion has dedicated her win today to the memory of her mum, who died in a road tragedy. Te Anna Phillips, of Taumarunui, said after winning the Junior woolhandling final she had wanted to make mother Sunnie Hughes proud, she ... More >>
