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The Big Breakthrough - Shearer Of The Year Win For Corey Palmer
Monday, 17 February 2025, 7:21 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Palmer hadn’t won a final since graduating after winning six Senior finals in the 2012-2013 season, including the 2013 Golden Shears Senior title in Masterton, but he had increasingly started mixing it with the top guns, including third place seven ... More >>
Ladies Day As Three Women Win At Ohura Shears
Monday, 17 February 2025, 9:36 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
They were Laura Bradley, a mum and farmer from Papatawa, Sarah Bryant of Arohena and Jodiesha Kirkpatrick, of Gisborne. More >>
World Champs Hopefuls Start Selection Series At Southern Shears
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 10:50 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
By Thursday morning Shearing Sports New Zealand had received 31 woolhandling entries and 27 from shearers, with points available at a selection of shows over the next 12 months leading to finals and confirmation of the team at the Rangitikei Shearing ... More >>
$20,000 To Shear A Lamb In 19.78 Seconds
Sunday, 9 February 2025, 9:29 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The win also includes a trip to Wales with the Wagga Wagga Speed Shear team, in which he also shore in Wales last July after winning the Wagga Wagga event three months earlier. More >>
Stratford Leads The Way In National Shearing Circuit
Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 7:35 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Led by defending champion, three-times winner and near perennial top qualifier Nathan Stratford, of Invercargill, the 10 were among 20 who resumed the battle for places in the qualifying dozen in the lambshearing round at the Rangitikei Shearing Sports ... More >>
Finally Got One - Ngaio Hanson's First Open Woolhandling Win
Monday, 3 February 2025, 8:47 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Eketahuna woolhandler Ngaio Hanson has had a stellar two years in representing New Zealand at the 2023 World Championships in Scotland and in this season’s transtasman test matches. But it reached another level on Friday when she the Danevirke A and ... More >>
Blades Guns Start Campaign For World Shears Gold
Thursday, 30 January 2025, 11:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The near year-long series’ will decide two machine shearers, two blades shearers and two woolhandlers for the Golden Shears World Championships in Masterton on March 4-7 next year. More >>
Rowland Smith's Second Win In Shears Comeback
Monday, 27 January 2025, 9:14 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The 38-year-old, two-metres-tall Smith further marked his line in the sand when he won A-grade show the Taihape Shears’ Open final on Saturday for a 10th time. More >>
World Women's World Shearing Record Bid In West Australia In February
Friday, 24 January 2025, 8:53 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The target is the 358 shorn by Jeanine Kimm in New South Wales in establishing a record for the category on May 4 last year. More >>
Shearing Record Attempt Gets The Green Light
Sunday, 19 January 2025, 8:04 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Under World Sheep Shearing Society rules the lambs must have an average wool weight of 0.9kg each, as determined by a sample shear of 20 from the target flock on the day beforehand. More >>
World Shearing Record Attempt In Hawke's Bay
Friday, 17 January 2025, 2:02 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Bay of Plenty shearer and former professional squash hopeful Jamie Skiffington is looking well primed for a solo World nine-hour strongwool lambs record attempt in which he will need to average about half-a-minute per lamb. More >>
Shearing It Around - The Busiest Week Of The Season From North To South
Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 2:56 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing Sports New Zealand Southland-Otago delegate Michael Hogan says there will be particular interest from the Open-class competitors, who next month start protracted shearing and woolhandling series’ to decide the New Zealand team members for the ... More >>
Family's Double Shear Delight - My Name Is Meikle, And So Is His
Monday, 13 January 2025, 5:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The lineup after the Peinisula Ducauchelle Open shearing at the Duvauchelle A and P Show on Banks Peinsula on Saturday. From left winner Justin Meikle, runner-up Ant Frew, third-placed Alex Smith, Blake Crooks (fourth), Grant Smith (fifth) and Shaun ... More >>
Shearing Them Around: 11 Shearing Records In 2024
Tuesday, 24 December 2024, 9:33 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A record year of World sheep shearing records has ended with Australian shearer Nicki Guttler’s breaking of a new mark that had been in place just 35 days. Guttler, who was third in a women’s event at the Golden Shears in Masterton in March, shore ... More >>
Te Whiringa - The First Senior Shearing Circuit In More Than A Decade
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 9:09 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Te Whiringa Senior Shearing Circuit has been developed by the Waimarino Shears committee, and will be contested over 10 rounds and a final, at the committe's annual competition in Raetihi. More >>
Supafly And Fellow Flyers Tackle Shearing Record
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 7:32 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A speedshear king who commonly shears sheep at under 25 seconds each in competition is now looking for a bit of moderation as he joins two long-time shearing mates to tackle a World record in a Manawatu-Whanganui woolshed tomorrow (Wednesday). Jimmy ... More >>
Welsh-Kiwi Combo Falls In Shot Oin World Sheep Shearing Record Bid
Sunday, 15 December 2024, 10:00 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
An attempt will be made on the three-stand strongwool lambs record for eight hours near Hunteville on December 18, and Skiffington’s nine-hours attempt will take place near Dannevirke on January 20. More >>
A Boost For Show Shearing In The North
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 10:54 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A new step to boost shearing competition entries in the Northland shows has proven to be an early success with more than 30 competitors shearing at the Whangarei A and P Show on Saturday. The 36 entries, from 31 shearers, including veterans, were ... More >>
Welsh And Kiwi Shearers Team Up For World Record Bid
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 10:52 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
At stake is the World two-stand, eight-hours strongwool lambs record of 1410 set on January 4, 2023 by Simon Goss and Jamie Skiffington in the Goss family’s Mangamahu Valley woolshed northeast of Whanganui. More >>
New Shears Event For Young Shearers In Northland
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 10:47 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Novice, Junior and Intermediate shearers will compete in a single event based on handicap, with a first prize of $500, $250 for second and money down to fifth place. More >>
