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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 >>
New Zealand Team Places On The Line At Merino Shears
Friday, 16 September 2022, 10:16 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Both the winner and runner-up in the New Zealand Shears Open woolhandling final in Alexandra on September 30 will represent New Zealand in the Transtasman series revival test match in Australia three weeks later. The decision comes after 2021 ... More >>
Transtasman Shears Tests Bounce Back From Pandemic Hiatus
Friday, 26 August 2022, 10:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A transtasman shearing competition which dates back 48 years will resume this October after two years of cancellations in the global pandemic. A Shearing Sports New Zealand team of three machine shearers, two blades shearers and two woolhandlers will face ... More >>
Nine Hours At 35.9 Seconds A Lamb - Records Are Made To Be Broken
Wednesday, 24 August 2022, 10:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A big challenge has been thrown out to New Zealand’s fastest shearers after the shattering of a British breeds record twice in a week by two guns each with about a decade of experience in New Zealand. The ultimate came on Friday (August 19) when ... More >>
The Race Is On For The Black Singlets At World Shears Champs
Tuesday, 23 August 2022, 9:37 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A mixture of title and selection series’ winners will be the six members of the New Zealand team for the 2023 World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Scotland. The processes were decided last week by Shearing Sports New Zealand’s national ... More >>
Shears Test Matches On The Agenda
Sunday, 12 June 2022, 12:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing Sports New Zealand is hopeful it will be able to resume the annual home-and-away transtasman test matches this year. Chairman Sir David Fagan said that with borders open again after the two years of the Covid-19 disruption New Zealand has been invited ... More >>
A Double Whammy For Lambs Shearing Record
Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 4:23 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two shearers who partnered in a five-stand World lambshearing record five months ago are now planning to go almost head-to-head in attempts to bring a solo record back to New Zealand just before Christmas this year. Teenager Reuben Alabaster, of ... More >>
Shearing Sports Bounces Back After Pandemic Blues
Sunday, 15 May 2022, 5:28 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A typical scene at the Golden Shears in Masterton, founded in 1961 and held every year since until the pandemic struck. Cancelled in 2021 and 2022 plans are being made for the 61st annual event to finally be held on March 2-4. Photo / Peter Nikolaison ... More >>
Warm Fav Nathan Stratford Won The 50th National Shearing Circuit Final In A Unique Event In A Central Otago Woolshed
Sunday, 6 March 2022, 6:21 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shorn at the Golden Shears in Masterton for 48 years until pandemic-based cancellations of the Golden Shears in the last two summers, the final of the PGG Wrightson Vetmed series was shifted to Armidale Merino Stud, at Gimmerburn. Incorporating the McSkimming ... More >>
Shearing It Around: Who's Your Pick ?
Friday, 4 March 2022, 11:42 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It’s sometimes dismissed as a sport, and not your regular weekend punting, but shearing in a woolshed in Central Otago takes on a position near centre-stage for one of the few home-based sports betting opportunities in New Zealand tomorrow (Saturday). ... More >>
Southland V The Rest In National Shearing Championship
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 10:35 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It will be Southland versus the Rest in the race for the PGG Wrightson Vetmed National Shearing Circuit title with five from the region among the qualifiers for the finals in a Central Otago woolshed next Saturday. The 12 for the showdown were decided after ... More >>
Shearing Champs At Apiti - Gateway To The Ruahine Ranges
Friday, 25 February 2022, 9:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
About 1100 sheep have been prepared for last-show-standing the Apiti and District Show shearing and woolhandling championships in the Central North Island tomorrow (Saturday). Organiser Russell Knight says more than 150 competitors took part last ... More >>
