Shearing Sports New Zealand - Latest News [Page 22]
Teen shes shear the limelight at Royal Show
Saturday, 20 October 2018, 4:16 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A group of girls from Havelock North school Iona College has helped create a record for the number of competitors in Shearing Sports Hawke’s Bay’s High Schools Shearing Challenge which was held at the Roya; New Zealand Show in Hastings on Thursday. More >>
World champ Kirkpatrick regains Hawke’s Bay title
Saturday, 20 October 2018, 11:35 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Reigning World Champion shearer John Kirkpatrick shed an important demon when he beat Golden Shears, New Zealand and former World title holder Rowland Smith in the Open final of the Great Raihania Shears Open final at the Royal New Zealand Show ... More >>
A sheep that sole the A and P show
Monday, 15 October 2018, 8:52 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
An enterprising sheep stole some of the limelight at the Ellesmere A and P Show on Saturday, gatecrashing a ribbon ceremony and masquerading as an alpaca after escaping from a pen at the shearing shed. More >>
Shearing - A star is born
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 9:45 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Three summers in Hawke’s Bay has rubbed-off well on Norwegian shearer Anne-Lise Humstad who has become one of the few women in the World to win a national Open shearing title. More >>
Master blades shearer reaches milestone – after 35 years
Sunday, 7 October 2018, 7:47 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Blade shearing champion Tony Dobbs reached a personal milestone when he won the New Zealand Spring Shears Open blade shearing final in Waimate on Saturday. More >>
Big southern double at Merino champs
Monday, 1 October 2018, 9:40 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It’s been a big night for the south at the opening shearing sports competition of the season with two dream wins at the New Zealand Merino Championhips in Alexandra.. More >>
Masters award for top woolhandler
Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 9:58 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Sheep shearing hub Alexandra will celebrate one of its own in the presenting of a particularly unique Master Woolhandler award as the shearing sports season starts in the Central Otago town this week. More >>
Australia takes the upper hand in Perth test matches
Monday, 24 September 2018, 11:16 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A surprise Australian woolhandling win has tipped the scales to the western side of the ditch for Australia in a 2-1 win in today’s transtasman shearing sports tests at the Royal Perth Show. More >>
Big day for the Kiwis shearing sports in Perth
Sunday, 23 September 2018, 11:48 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand shearers and woolhandlers have got off to a good start at the Royal Perth Show with three big wins on Saturday on the eve of three transtasman tests. More >>
New Zealand wins shears test, but it was close Boyo
Sunday, 29 July 2018, 11:34 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The CP Wool New Zealand shearing team has ended it’s 2018 UK tour with a win over Wales at the Corwen Shears in North Wales today (July 29 UK Time) in possibly the closest-ever result in international teams shearing. More >>
Oldfield ends UK jaunt with win No 8
Saturday, 28 July 2018, 6:49 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
South Canterbury shearer Allan Oldfield has wrapped up a season in the UK with an emphatic win in the blade shearing final at the Corwen Shears in North Wales earlier today (Saturday NZDT, Friday UK). More >>
Wales beat New Zealand at Royal Welsh Show
Friday, 27 July 2018, 9:41 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The New Zealand shearing team has one last chance to claim an international victory on their CP Wool UK Tour after suffering a third consecutive loss to Wales on Wednesday (July 25) at the Royal Welsh Show. More >>
Oldfield considers record options after Heraty’s big day out
Wednesday, 25 July 2018, 2:31 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand blades shearer blades shearer Allan Oldfield is considering a possible World record attempt after helping an Irishman tor one of the biggest one-day tallies ever shorn with the clippers. More >>
New Zealand shearers step-up in Wales
Tuesday, 24 July 2018, 9:40 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand shearers have had a big start to the Royal Welsh Show week with two wins, including blade shearer Allan Oldfield’s completion of a rare sequence of wins at the UK’s four big Royal shows. More >>
Wales takes 2-0 lead over NZ in shearing series
Sunday, 22 July 2018, 12:35 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Nathan Stratfiord, of Invercargill, and David Buick, of Pongaroa were beaten by Welsh shearers Matthew Evans, of Swansea, and Alun Lloyd Jones, of Llangollen, at both the Cothi Shears on Friday and the Lampeter Shears on Saturday. More >>
Stratford scores big at Great Yorkshire Show
Thursday, 12 July 2018, 9:21 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford has scored the first win of the CP Wool New Zealand Shearing team UK Tour with a classy victory at one of the biggest shows in England. More >>
NZ-based Scots shearer breaks Kiwi stranglehold
Monday, 9 July 2018, 8:51 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Taranaki farmer and Scotland international Gavin Mutch has won his second Herdwick Lakeland Shears Open shearing title, breaking a New Zealand stranglehold on the event in the North of England. More >>
Scotland beats NZ in first shearing test
Monday, 2 July 2018, 10:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The New Zealand shearing team has been beaten by Scotland in the opening match of the 2018 CP Wool UK Tour. More >>
Shearing Sports team to tour UK
Wednesday, 20 June 2018, 11:00 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
North Wairarapa farmer David Buick has been named to represent New Zealand on the six-match CP Wool Shearing Sports New Zealand tour of the UK starting later this month. More >>
Hewes huge win at Royal Bath and West
Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 1:31 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A Waikato teenager has had the biggest success of his short shearing career by winning an Intermediate title at the Golden Shears – of Great Britain. More >>