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Young Shearers Line-up For The Honours At Ohura Show
Monday, 22 February 2021, 6:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Juniors and Novices have carried the candle for the competitors big-time at the Ohura A and P Show shears today by providing just over half of all entries. The Shears, at Niho Niho Showgrounds, between Ohura and Matiere, attracted entries, with the ... More >>
Baigent Gets A Win At Murchison
Monday, 22 February 2021, 6:10 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Wakefield shearer Travers Baigent had his first win in 9 finals in the Nelson area shows since his last win almost two years when he won the Murchison A and P Show Open title on Saturday. Travers had four wins in the 2018-2019 season, including ... More >>
Samuels Looms As Big Southern Hope For Golden Shears
Monday, 22 February 2021, 6:08 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearer Leon Samuels leapt even further into potential to become the first South Island Golden Shears champion in 32 years when he won the Southern Shears Open title in Gore on Saturday. In a six-man final of 20 sheep each chocked full of talent ... More >>
Scotland Hopeful For New Zealand National Shearing Title
Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 8:00 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Former World champion and proud Scotland international Gavin Mutch is leading the chase in search of the 49th New Zealand national circuit title and the McSkimming Memorial Triple Crown. Gavin Mutch, Scottish shearer and New Zealand National Circuit ... More >>
Covid Update: A And P Show Cancelled In The Far North
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 8:31 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
One of New Zealand’s northernmost A and P shows has been cancelled as a result of the new Covid-19 crisis. The North Hokianga A and Show was to have been held on Friday and Saturday at Broadwood, about 45km south of Kaitaia and 65km west of Kaikohe. ... More >>
Henare Shuts The Opposition Out Again In Otago Shears
Monday, 15 February 2021, 7:59 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Joel Henare in a lighter moment at the Otago Shears on Saturday, when he won the New Zealand Woolhandler of the Year final for a 12th time in 14 years. At left is Chelsea Collier, who won the event in 2005 and endured more than 40 finals around ... More >>
Shearing In The North
Monday, 15 February 2021, 6:43 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Wellsford shearer, who won his first Senior title at Arapohue on Saturday, pictured at the new Whangarei A and P Show Shears in December. Photo / SSNZ Fagan wins on a brilliant day at Arapohue Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan avoided the temptation ... More >>
Joel Henare Wins The Otago Shears’ New Zealand Woolhandler Of The Year Title, Again
Sunday, 14 February 2021, 5:25 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Champion woolhandler Joel Henare’s unique post-retirement career took the latest of many divergences when he won the Otago Shears’ New Zealand Woolhandler of the Year title, again, on Saturday. The fact is that his plan to retire after scoring ... More >>
Shearing Show Entries Leap On Big Weekend
Monday, 8 February 2021, 4:39 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Leon Samuels, winner of the Aria Waitangi Day Sports Open shearing title on Saturday, pictured shearing into third place 24 hours later at the Rangitikei Shearing Sports North Island Championships in Marton. Photo / SSNZ Worries about low wool prices, More >>
Shearing Sports Results
Monday, 8 February 2021, 8:25 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Results from shearing sports events at the weekend in Dannevirke, Paparoa, Aria, Reefton and Marton RESULTS from the Dannevirke A and P Show Shears at Dannevirke on Friday, February 5, 2021: Shearing: Open final (20 sheep): David Buick (Pongaroa) ... More >>
Shearing
Sunday, 31 January 2021, 2:04 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A rare moment as Gavin Mutch beats Rowland Smith by almost a sheep and a half in the 20-sheep Taihape Open shearing final on Saturday. Photo / SSNZ Gotcha! time for Scots gun as champion shearers face-off at Taihape Speed was finally the winner for ... More >>
Woolhandling Opportunity Galore At Taihape Show
Thursday, 28 January 2021, 7:51 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Woolhandling competition will take on extra importance at the Taihape A and P Show on Saturday because of the shortage of opportunities in a season hit by the uncertainty of the Covid-19 crisis. Part of the show’s shearing sports, the annual start of ... More >>
Elite Training For Golden Shears Hopefuls
Thursday, 28 January 2021, 7:48 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Some of New Zealand’s top shearers and woolhandlers will be heading back to school as private wool industry trainer Elite puts even the best through a time-honoured tradition of big-time prep-work ahead of this year’s Golden Shears. The high-performance ... More >>
Amazing Winning Sequence Continues For Young Masterton Shearer
Monday, 25 January 2021, 8:05 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Adam Gordon, of Masterton, at Levin on Sunday, with win No 8 in nine finals this season. Photo / Supplied Young Masterton shearer Adam Gordon continued one of the most promising starts to a shearing sports career when he won the Intermediate final ... More >>
Pyper Claims Third Tapawera Shears Title
Sunday, 24 January 2021, 4:31 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Reuben King, a mechanical engineering graduate from the central North Island but who shears in North Canterbury. On Saturday, at Tapawera, south of Nelson, he won his fifth Junior shearing title this summer. Photo / Supplied A field of 12 Open-class ... More >>
Big Shearing Sports Weekend
Monday, 18 January 2021, 10:10 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Six leading hopes for Open titles at the Golden Shears in Masterton in March have each got their new year under way confidently with wins in one of the busiest weekends on the shearing sports calendar. More >>
Women's Shearing Record Broken In Southland
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 5:11 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Megan Whitehead mid-way during her shearing record, with father and clockwatcher Quentin Whitehead looking on from the next pen. Photo / Supplied. A sprightly Southland shearer has today smashed a women’s world record by clipping 662 lambs in nine More >>
World Shearing Record Bid Ahead Of Target
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 7:27 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A new World shearing record is already beckoning with Southland shearer Megan Whitehead well ahead of her target in the first run of two hours from 5am to 7am in a woolshed near Gore. Watched by five World Sheep Shearing Records Society judges, Whitehead ... More >>
World Shearing Record
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 7:04 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearer Megan Whitehead got off to a comfortable start in her bid for a new World record with a first hour ahead of the target after the start at 5am in a woolshed near Gore. The 24-year-old Whitehead is targeting a record of 648 lambs ... More >>
Shearing Crews Urged To Get On Board With Competitions
Monday, 11 January 2021, 3:10 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The call has gone out for shearing contractors and staff to get in behind shearing competitions throughout the country as hard-working organisers struggle to get enough entries. . While entries for many of the close to 60 competitions each summer are ... More >>
