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Six Shearing Competitions This Weekend
Thursday, 18 January 2024, 9:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
An array of New Zealand fullwool and lambshearing titles will be at stake in the biggest weekend of shearing sports competition this summer. Six one-day shows – a tenth of all competitions on the Shearing Sports New Zealand calendar – will ... More >>
Three-stand Shearing Record Bid Near Dannevirke On Friday
Tuesday, 16 January 2024, 9:57 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Three shearers working throughout the Tararua District of Southern Hawke’s Bay and Northern Wairarapa are in the latter stages of preparation for their bid for a World record this week. Eketahuna shearer Hemi Braddick, who when finally winning ... More >>
Record Smashed In Five Shearers' Big Day Out In Southland
Sunday, 14 January 2024, 8:06 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Five shearers new to attempting shearing records and comparatively unknown in the competition World have smashed a World record by 326 lambs in Southland today. The Forde Winders Shearing crew of Trevor Holland, of New Plymouth, Max Winders, of Colac ... More >>
One Of Records Shearing's Most Stunning Days - A Women's Record Smashed
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 5:15 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
One of New Zealand’s most successful female competition shearers has smashed a World shearing record by almost 10 sheep an hour. Shearing today (Wednesday) at Nukuhakari Station, in coastal King Country in one of records-shearing's most stunning displays, ... More >>
Shearing Record Update 3.40pm
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 3:33 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A World shearing record that stood for just three days has been broken this afternoon in a coastal King Country woolshed. Catherine Mullooly, from Matawai, Gisborne, passed the target of 386 about 3.40pm and will shear on to the scheduled finish at 5pm, ... More >>
Shearing Record Update
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 1:39 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Sheep shearer Catherine Mullooly is continuing her relentless run towards smashing a World eight-hours eweshearing record with the possibility she may even do more than the current record for nine hours. In the first hour after lunch in the record ... More >>
Ewes Flash - Shearing Record Update Run 2, Lunch
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 11:44 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Catherine Mullooly has reached the lunchtime halfway stage with a tall of 233 in quest for the World women's solo eight-hour eweshearing record at Nukuhakaro Station west of Te Kuiti. She shearered 116 in the first two hours from 7am-9am and 117 from ... More >>
Stunning Start For New Shearing Record Bid
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 11:08 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World shearing record challenger Catherine Mullooly is well ahead of the required pace in her bid for a new solo women’s eight-hour ewes record at coastal sheep and beef station Nukuhakari, west of Te Kuiti. Ending the first two hours and heading ... More >>
Shearing Record A Struggle But On Target
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 11:07 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A shearing record set just three days ago looks to be under some threat today despite the early struggle challenger Catherine Mullooly is experiencing in a remote North Island west coast woolshed. Starting at 7am at Nukuhakari Station, west of Te Kuiti, ... More >>
On Show: Shearing Competitions Resume
Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 2:34 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Wairoa A and P Shears in a woolshed northwest of Wairoa in 2020. With Cyclone Gabrielle having left long-lasting damage at the town's showgrounds, this year'd shearing championships are also being nheld in a farm woolshed, the third time the ... More >>
New Shearing Record Beckons For Women's Shearing Champion
Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 9:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A 34-year-old mum already with an historic background on the shearing board will on Wednesday turn her hand to challenging a World record bid less than three days old. Catherine Mullooly, from Matawai, Gisborne, will be trying to break the Women’s ... More >>
Gut-busting Record Day For Shearer Amy Silcock
Monday, 8 January 2024, 7:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
386 ewes, 25 tonnes of sheep, 1.35 tonnes of wool Farmer-turned shearer Amy Silcock smashed a World record near Pahiatua today, but the elation was still dimmed by the couple that got way. Shearing under the watch of four World Sheep Shearing Record ... More >>
Sunday Shearing Record Bid
Thursday, 4 January 2024, 4:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Ewe-shearing record hopeful Amy Silcock started shearing because she wanted to see the World and didn’t want to be ”one of those people who gets to 40 and has never done it.” That was when she was 28 and farming, but, now 37, it’s much more than ... More >>
A Tough Day At The Office In A Wairarapa Woolshed
Sunday, 24 December 2023, 1:49 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Masterton shearers Paerata Abraham and Chris Dickson have fallen 20 short of their target in a bid for the World two-stand eight-hours strongwool lambshearing record. But it was a case of if-only for the pair who sheared more than the record of 1410 ... More >>
It's The Men's Turn As Shearing Record Tackled In Wairarapa
Sunday, 24 December 2023, 7:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The pre-record shearing of a sample of 20 lambs for the wool-weigh on Friday afternoon. Wairarapa shearers Paerata Abraham and Chris Dickson face a tough slog in a quest to break two eight hours strongwool lambs record tomorrow (Saturday). The focus in ... More >>
Drama In Wairarapa Woolshed
Saturday, 23 December 2023, 4:22 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Drama is unfolding in a Wairarapa woolshed, where Masterton shearers Paerata Abraham and Chris Dickson are expected to go going right to the wire in their quest for a new World two-stand, eight hours strong wool lambs record. Targeting a record of ... More >>
Shearing Record Blitz Hit Historic Fir Woimen's 700 In A Day
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 5:19 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A former pupil of Tararua College has smashed a record beyond the scope of any scholastic dreams by becoming the first woman in the World to shear 700 sheep in a nine-hour day. Shearing today at Centre Hill, near Mossburn in Southland, Sacha Bond, now based ... More >>
Show Loyalty Wins The Day For Woolhandler Monica Potae
Monday, 4 December 2023, 9:53 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Coromandel woolhandler Monica Potae’s patience and perseverance was rewarded when she won the Open final at the Rotorua A and P Show’s Agrodome Shears on Saturday. An Open-class competitor for 21 years it was just her third win, her first having ... More >>
Eight Weekends Of Show Shearing Competitions In The North
Monday, 27 November 2023, 2:14 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The annual round of eight A and P show shearing competitions kicks-off this Saturday with the Whangarei A and P Show. The competition, a shearing-only championships which was revived in 2020 with the opening of an impressive, new open-sided board, will ... More >>
Doing The Miles - 400km Each Way To Shear At Nelson Show
Monday, 27 November 2023, 9:37 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
North Canterbury shearer Blake Crooks showed all the grit of a champion when he drove close to 400km each way to compete at the Nelson A and P Show on Saturday. With three senior wins behind him this season, including last-start victory at the ... More >>
