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Early end for shearing record bid
Saturday, 4 January 2020, 11:59 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A rare merino wethers World shearing record attempt in Central Otago has been abandoned with the target well out of range less than halfway through the nine-hour challenge today. More >>
Rare wethers shearing record bid on Saturday
Friday, 3 January 2020, 10:00 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
An attempt on one of the toughest of World shearing records is set to go ahead in Central Otago tomorrow (Saturday, January 4), a month after being postponed because there wasn’t enough wool. More >>
Hot pace on a hot day as shearers break three-stand record
Tuesday, 24 December 2019, 6:19 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Three Waikato shearers yesterday (Monday) smashed a World record despite temperatures well over 30degs in a woolshed west of State Highway 3 town Piopio. More >>
Shearing Records - Background
Sunday, 22 December 2019, 1:37 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The three-stand lambshearing record which will be attempted on Monday (December 23) is one of numerous records overseen by the World Sheep Shearing Records Society. It is one of six record attempts so far registered with the Society for this summer, ... More >>
Sheep shearing record on Monday
Saturday, 21 December 2019, 6:39 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Three Waikato shearers are facing the daunting task of shearing lambs at lee than 47 seconds each for 8 hours to crack a World record in a remote King Country woolshed on Monday. More >>
Right back into it – record-breaking shearer Pauline Bolay
Tuesday, 10 December 2019, 12:12 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Canadian shearer Pauline Bolay is back at work in a Waikato woolshed today little the worse for wear from a World Record 510 lambs in a day on Saturday and growing international media interest in her achievement. More >>
Saturday all-go for Bolay’s record attempt
Tuesday, 3 December 2019, 9:07 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Worries about a possible December storm in an otherwise warm New Zealand summer has resulted in Canadian shearer Pauline Bolay’s historic World shearing record attempt being brought-forward to take place on Saturday(December 7). More >>
Shearing record hopefuls warm-up
Monday, 2 December 2019, 10:58 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearer Megan Whitehead, in only her second competition, waiting for the Taranaki Shears Senior final in Stratford on Saturday. PHOTO/Jills Angus Burney. More >>
Two out of three for Kiwi shears team in Australia tests
Saturday, 30 November 2019, 11:33 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand have claimed a 2-1 triumph in a night of transtasman shearing sports test matches in Australia. More >>
Kiwi shears guns in form for Aussie challenge
Tuesday, 26 November 2019, 1:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand transtasman series shearing representatives Southland shearers Troy Pyper and Nathan Stratford each wrapped-up their preparation for Friday’s test match in Australia by winning separate competitions almost the length of the South Island ... More >>
Te Huia's shearing record bid from the heart
Friday, 22 November 2019, 10:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Prolific shearing record breaker Stacey Te Huia arrives back in New Zealand during the weekend to start the countdown to a rare merino wethers record bid in Central Otago. More >>
Another one in the bag as JK lands CHB win No 13
Tuesday, 19 November 2019, 11:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Hawke’s Bay shearer John Kirkpatrick continued his best start to a season in several years when he won the Central Hawke’s Bay A and P Show’s Open shearing final in Waipukurau on Saturday. More >>
More quality from Southern man "Stratty"
Monday, 18 November 2019, 8:13 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearer Nathan Stratford extended an outstanding record in the New Zealand Corriedale championships Open shearing final when he won the title in Christchurch for a third time on Friday. Stratford was shearing in the six-man final for a 15th ... More >>
Karauria completes historic South Island wool treble
Friday, 15 November 2019, 8:42 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World champion Central Otago woolhandler Pagan Karauria has signed-off her preparation for her next international assignment when she completed an historic sequence of three major wins. More >>
Double win for Watson as women feature at Marlborough Shears
Monday, 11 November 2019, 8:01 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Marlborough A and P Show became the latest to recognise the growing number of women in shearing competitions by staging a new event as shearing returned to the show in Blenheim on Saturday. More >>
Everywhere man wins at Manawatu Shears
Monday, 11 November 2019, 7:41 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand representative David Buick notched his first win of the new shearing sports season with victory at the Manawatu Show in Feilding on Saturday. More >>
King repeats Mangawhai Speedshear win
Tuesday, 5 November 2019, 9:11 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Hawke’s Bay shearer Dion King cemented a place as the fastest gun in the north when he won the second Mangawha Tavern Speedshear on Saturday. More >>
Another Southland shearing win
Monday, 4 November 2019, 8:33 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Mataura shearer Brett Roberts became the 7th different winner in the first 8 Open finals of the 2019-2020 New Zealand shearing sports season when he won the Ashburton A and P Show’s Open final on Saturday. More >>
Kirky celebrates 25 years with another win
Sunday, 3 November 2019, 11:53 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Champion shearer John Kirkpatrick continued to show advancing years are no bar to winning form as he won the Wairarapa A and P Show Open final on Aaturday. More >>
Big night for speedshear at Mangawhai
Saturday, 2 November 2019, 11:52 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Sporting tragics wanting to get away from a World Cup final without the All Blacks have the ideal chance to see something different when the second Mangawhai Hotel Speedshear is held north of Auckland on Saturday. More >>
