Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register Shearing Sports New Zealand for InfoPages here.
Shearing Sports New Zealand - Latest News [Page 14]
Shearing Record Drama Unfolding In Stormy Central North Island
Tuesday, 20 December 2022, 5:41 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A teenager’s bid for a World shearing record today has come down to not only a battle of stamina but also the weather outside the woolshed in a remote pocket of the central North Island. The solo eight-hour strongwool lambs record bid at Te Pa ... More >>
Double-hit On Lambshearing Record
Monday, 19 December 2022, 5:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A shearing record which has gone unchallenged for more than a decade will be up for grabs twice in three days in the central North Island this week. The target is the eight-hours solo strongwool lambshearing record of 744, set by Irish shearer ... More >>
Kaiwaka Quinella At First Show In The North
Sunday, 4 December 2022, 6:41 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Jayden Mainland, winner of the Whangarei A and P senior shearing title on Saturday, his second win of the season, picked at in a Rangitikei Shearing Sports Senior final in Marton in 2021. PHOTO / SSNZ The lure of another competition, a taste of victory ... More >>
Shearer Hopes To Be At Whangarei Show - Weather Willing
Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 10:18 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Northland shearer Toa Henderson often travels a thousand kilometres or more to get to and from competitions, as he did when he won in Central Hawke’s Bay earlier this month and again last Saturday when he won in Stratford. But with the weather ... More >>
Shearing Records Flourish After Borders Reopen
Monday, 21 November 2022, 9:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Australia-based Taumarunui shearer Floyde Neil set a new World earlier this month but already faces a challenge, in a wave of shearing record bids after the reopening of borders. Neil, son of a record-breaking King Country shearer, set a solo eight-hours ... More >>
Northland Gun Hits The Road For Shearing Win In Central Hawke's Bay
Monday, 14 November 2022, 6:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Northland shearer Toa Henderson again sounded a warning he means business with a round-trip of 1400kms to win the Central Hawke’s Bay A and P Show’s Open shearing final on Saturday. It was just a 48-hour trip, leaving midday Friday from home in ... More >>
Win No 127 For Woolhandler Henare
Monday, 14 November 2022, 3:35 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Gore woolhandler Autum Hiri, pictured with one-year-old daughter Sadie after winning the Senior final at the New Zealand Corriedale Woolhandling Championships in Christchurch on Friday. It was her first win since a Junior victory at Alexandra in 2016. Photo ... More >>
National Shears Circuit Grows Another Leg In Christchurch
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 10:19 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
South Island shearers go into the Canterbury Shears and New Zealand Corriedale Shearing and Woolhandling Championships well placed to continue a domination of the PGG Wrightson Vetmed National Shearing Circuit. The championships start in Christchurch today with ... More >>
South Island Shears Make Ready For Show-week Feature
Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 10:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two hopes for this week’s New Zealand Corriedales Open shearing championship both warmed up for the Christchurch show-week event with wins at separate competitions on Saturday. Marlborough shearer and contractor Angus Moore won at the Marlborough ... More >>
Increased Prizemoney, Women's Event At Canterbury Shears
Friday, 4 November 2022, 5:51 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
An increase in Open shearing prizemoney and a first Corriedale Championships women’s event will be features of the Canterbury Shears at the New Zealand Agricultural Show in Christchurch next week. New shears committee chairman James Dwyer, who also heads ... More >>
Big Day For The Shearing Competition That Stuck It Out In 2021
Thursday, 3 November 2022, 4:07 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Organisers of the Marlborough A and P Show Shears in Blenheim on Saturday are hoping for a sharp increase in entries, with the added attraction of a speedshear afterwards, taking the value of cash prizes for the day to over $5000. A good turnout will be ... More >>
Stratford Steps Up The Pace At Ashburton
Tuesday, 1 November 2022, 10:47 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearer Nathan Stratford signalled he’s a serious contender for a place at next year’s Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships with a sub minute-a-sheep performance in winning the Ashburton A and P Show’s Open shearing ... More >>
The Gizzy Crew Catches The Shearing Bug
Sunday, 30 October 2022, 6:36 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
There were signs of “the bug” when almost 70 shearers and woolhandlers competed on Saturday as the Wairarapa A and P Show cranked back into action after two years of cancellations. There were 38 across five classes of shearing from Open to Novice ... More >>
Taking The Train To The Shearing Competition
Sunday, 23 October 2022, 6:11 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Suburban traingoers may well wonder what is in the bag of the bearded fellow passenger on occasional trips between Hutt Valley and Wellington. They’d be right if they guessed it was a pair of blade shears used by the stranger, a World champion shearer ... More >>
Great Raihania Shears Gets Rowland Smith On The Road Again
Saturday, 22 October 2022, 7:35 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Champion shearer Rowland Smith sounded a loud warning he’ll be the man to catch in New Zealand’s 2023 World Championships hopes when on Friday as he won his home Great Raihania Shears Open final at the Hawke’s Bay Show. The Maraekakaho farmer ... More >>
Lining Up For Shearing Records
Thursday, 20 October 2022, 9:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
At least seven attempts will be made on World sheep shearing records in New Zealand and Australia over the next four months, mainly by New Zealand shearers and targeting some of the oldest tallies on the register of the World Sheep Shearing Records Society. ... More >>
Wools Of New Zealand Backs Shears Sports Dream
Wednesday, 12 October 2022, 11:34 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Legacies of more than 170 shears of a wool industry in New Zealand are behind Wools of New Zealand’s renewal of a longstanding sponsorship with national sports organisation Shearing Sports New Zealand. Wools of New Zealand is 100 per cent owned by the farming ... More >>
Fitter And Trimmer Abraham Claims Merino Woolhandling Title
Sunday, 2 October 2022, 5:15 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Masterton woolhandler Cushla Abraham brought both form and a major surprise to Central Otago town Alexandra as she won the New Zealand Merino Championships Open woolhandling title. The dominating performance, spearheaded by exceptional fleece quality points ... More >>
Kiwi Shearing Legend Brings Australian Indigenous Team To NZ Merino Shears
Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 9:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Australia-based New Zealand shearing legend Samson Te Whata returns to the New Zealand Merino Shears in Alexandra on Friday and Saturday on a journey of both nostalgia and future hope. A four-times 1980s winner of its major title, the New Zealand finewool ... More >>
A Fair Shears Share On Both Sides Of The Tasman
Tuesday, 20 September 2022, 6:35 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand wool harvesting trainer Elite Wool Industry Training has taken a big step to address global shortage of skilled woolshed labour by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with two of Australia’s major players in the industry. The other ... More >>
