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Leon Samuels - First South Island Golden Shears Champion Since 1989
Monday, 4 March 2024, 3:53 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearer Leon Samuels marvels at becoming the first South Island shearer to winn the Golden Shears Open shearing final since 1989. Photo / Pete Nikolaison. Southland shearer Leon Samuels became the first South Islander to win the Golden ... More >>
A Southerly Blowing At The Golden Shears
Saturday, 2 March 2024, 9:42 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A wind of Golden Shears change may have blown in from the south with a Southland team winning the annual championships’ first Regional Team Shearing Challenge in Masterton tonight (Friday). In a South Island one-two finish, the team of Open shearer ... More >>
Six Of The Best - Gordon Whanau Reunion In One Golden Shears Heat
Friday, 1 March 2024, 8:57 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A unique moment in the 62 years of the Golden Shears happened today when six members of one family filled the six-stand board in a heat of glamour event the Open championship. Wools of New Zealand New Zealand 2023 UK tour team member Paerata Abraham, who with ... More >>
Wairoa Schoolgirl Wins As Youth Dominates First Day Of Golden Shears
Friday, 1 March 2024, 8:30 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A 15-year-old Wairoa College student claimed first bragging rights for the growing number of female shearers at the Golden Shears by winning the Novice final yesterday. Ashlin Swann, in Masterton with twin sister and fellow Novice shearer Shawna, brother ... More >>
Injury Forces Shearing Champion Rowland Smith Out Of Golden Shears
Friday, 1 March 2024, 4:12 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Reigning Golden Shears open shearing champion Rowland Smith has withdrawn from this year’s event because of injury. The near two-metres-tall 37-year-old Hawke’s Bay shearer and eight-times Golden Shears Open winner, and 2014 World Champion, announced ... More >>
Golden Shears Entries Up 25 Per Cent - 500 Shearers And Woolhandlers In Masterton
Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 8:23 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Golden Shears starting in Masterton tomorrow (Thursday) have attracted the biggest entry in many years with about 500 shearers and woolhandlers competing – more than 25 per cent up on last year. The five shearing grades and four woolhandling grades, ... More >>
Winning Woolhandling: It's More About Class, Pride And Passion
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 12:18 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Perennial Golden Shears Open woolhandling champion Joel Henare will be back in Masterton this week aiming for a 10th consecutive win in the event. But it’s not so much about winning as working, in the pride and knowledge that woolhandling is a valued ... More >>
Pahiatua Shears - Northland Gun Keeps Winning
Monday, 26 February 2024, 5:41 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Northland shearer who has been sweeping almost all before him on the road to this week’s Golden Shears now has some history now on his side as well as the hot-paced form. Yet to qualify for a Golden Shears Open final, and eliminated in the semi-finals ... More >>
Henderson Leads The Way As The Guns Head For The Golden Shears - At Pace
Sunday, 25 February 2024, 11:22 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Northland shearer Toa Henderson was in ever-increasingly dominant form as he entered the last weekend before the Golden Shears with major wins at Taumarunui on Friday and Apiti on Saturday. In the 20-sheep, six-man Open finals at both the Taumarunui ... More >>
Stratford On Target For Third National Shearing Circuit Title
Friday, 23 February 2024, 9:01 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand’s most experienced transtasman test-match shearer is set to go another round as favourite to win the PGG Wrightson Vetmed National Shearing Circuit. With one preliminary round remaining, on second-shear sheep at the Pahiatua Shears on ... More >>
NZ Shearers Gunning It In Oz - One Outguns Them All
Monday, 12 February 2024, 7:40 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Floyd Neil, from Taumarunui, after his win in the World's richest speed shear on Saturday at Oberon, NSW, with $A20,000 prize for the 20.65sec it took to shear a single sheep in the final. Photo / Oberon Quick Shears An Australia-based Taumarunui ... More >>
Keeping The Shearing Competitions Alive In Northland - In Their 70s
Sunday, 11 February 2024, 7:44 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The challenge is out for all shearers anywhere near Northland to get to Broadwood for next weekend’s North Hokianga A and P Show shearing championships after two farmers heading towards the age of 80 shore in finals to help make up the numbers ... More >>
Overcoming The Jinx - Rimene Wins Otago Woolhandling Crown
Sunday, 11 February 2024, 7:34 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It was one for the bucket list as Alexandra woolhandler Pagan Rimene won major crown the Otago Shears’ New Zealand Woolhandler of the Year Open title on Saturday. It was her 10th time in the final since 2011, but her first win, after being runner-up ... More >>
Ewe Shearing Record Broken, But It Wasn't Easy
Friday, 9 February 2024, 8:58 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
King Country shearer Sacha Bond became the first person in 40 years to hold World nine-hours strongwool ewes and lambs shearing records simultaneously with a new nine-hours mark on the adult sheep in Northern Southland today. But it wasn’t easy, for Bond, ... More >>
Shearing Record Update 3
Friday, 9 February 2024, 11:56 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A dramatic afternoon is expected as King Country shearer Sacha Bond battles her way through a World women’s nine-hours strongwool ewes shearing record bid in a Northern Southland woolshed. Starting at 5am, and originally forecast by some as ... More >>
Shearing Record: Two Hours Done, Seven To Go
Friday, 9 February 2024, 9:37 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
King Country shearer Sacha Bond has made a tentative start to her women’s nine-hours strongwool ewes shearing record bid, just on pace in the first two hours to breakfast in a Northern Southland woolshed. Starting at 5am and targetig a record of 452 shorn ... More >>
$20K For A Minute's Shearing: Go Kiwi
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 7:59 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Four of New Zealand’s fastest shearers are making a flying trip to Australia which could end up with one of them winning $A20,000 for barely a minute’s shearing on Saturday. Jimmy Samuels, of Marton, Jack Fagan, of Te Kuiti, Paerata Abraham, of ... More >>
Haig Blows A Few Cobwebs Out, And Wins First Open Title In 26 Years
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 10:52 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Taumarunui farm stock manager Miri Haig went 26 years almost completely out of the woolhandling scene but showed she hadn’t lost the touch when she won the Waitangi Day Sports Open final near the isolated King Country township of Aria on Tuesday. ... More >>
Toa Henderson: Northland Shearing Gun In The Fast Lane
Sunday, 4 February 2024, 3:09 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Northland shearer Toa Henderson again spread-eagled the opposition to shear a 20-sheep final in under 16 minutes for the third time in a week when he won the North Island Open Shearing Championship final at the 60th Rangitikei Shearing Sports in Marton ... More >>
The Rowly Show Starts Rolling Again
Saturday, 3 February 2024, 7:12 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Champion Hawke’s Bay shearer Rowland Smith heralded his return to competition by winning the Dannevirke A and P Show Open final on Friday. Smith hadn’t competed since returning from the 2023 World championships, held in Scotland last June, leaving ... More >>
