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Osborne back in winning circle at Paparoa
Monday, 5 February 2018, 10:23 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Veteran Dargaville shearer Neville Osborne returned to winning form as he regained the North Kaipara A and P Show’s Open shearing title at Paparoa on Saturday. More >>
Fast shearing final
Sunday, 4 February 2018, 11:11 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The 2012 World champion, Whangamomona farmer, Scots international and 2012 World champion, produced the second best quality points to claim another in a sequence of second placings since winning at Tauranga last month, a final for which Smith ... More >>
New Zealand gets it its shear revenge
Saturday, 3 February 2018, 8:19 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World record breaking Welsh shearer Matthew Evans had a go at blowing New Zealand’s World champions off the board in the first CP Wool Shearing Series test today, but says at the end it was never really going to happen. More >>
Not the money, the points, says budding shears champion
Friday, 2 February 2018, 12:03 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Masterton shearer Ethan Pankhurst has won 30 lower-grade finals over the years but is unfazed by having to go without as he serves his sport’s unofficial mid-career apprenticeship trying to bust into the elite of Open-class competition. More >>
Blades shearers descend on Reefton to start world champs bid
Friday, 2 February 2018, 8:59 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A father and son will line up against each other on Saturday in the first round of a bid to represent New Zealand together in the 2019 World shearing and woolhandling championships in France. More >>
Speed v quality: Quality wins the day at Warkworth
Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 8:55 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Open shearing final at Warkworth A and P Show on Saturday was effectively a match between Te Kuiti visitor Jack Fagan and Dargaville’s Neville Osborne. More >>
Overseas shearers dominate at Rotorua
Monday, 29 January 2018, 8:43 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The unusual Rotorua Agrodome Shears Intermediate final lineup on Sunday, from left winner Jeremy Leygonise, from France, runner-up Annalise Humstad, of Norway, third-placegetter Gwydion Davies, of Wales, Emily Te Kapa, from Scotland, who was fourth, and fifth-placegetter ... More >>
Tough day ahead for Southland shearer’s record blast
Sunday, 28 January 2018, 8:58 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearer Leon Samuels will have to climb more than a mountain tomorrow to break one of the toughest of World shearing records in expected roasting temperatures in a northern Southland woolshed. More >>
Wales win shearing tour opener in Taihape
Saturday, 27 January 2018, 10:59 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Welsh shearers Matthew Evans and Alun Lloyd Jones barely let such matters as a late arrival in New Zealand and the immediate immersion into one its hottest summers as they scored a rear Welsh win downunder at the Taihape A and P Show Shears today. More >>
Shearing tests almost cancelled because of visa holdup
Thursday, 25 January 2018, 8:28 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A test series between New Zealand and Wales went within a few days of possible cancellation because of delays with visas for the visiting team. More >>
Fagan takes french visitors on a roadshow
Monday, 22 January 2018, 11:33 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan proved a more-than-handy tour guide and shearing mentor in a 12-hour round trip of almost 900kms to Kaikohe and back on Saturday when he claimed only his second Open-final win in New Zealand. More >>
The champ is back – it only took a week
Monday, 22 January 2018, 11:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Reigning Golden Shears and New Zealand shearing champion Rowland Smith bounced back from a rare defeat to successfully defend both the Wairoa and Horowhenua shows Open titles in emphatic fashion at the weekend. More >>
Wool champ marches on – Happy dad and all
Saturday, 20 January 2018, 12:20 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World champion woolhandler and father-of-three Joel Henare moved to just three short of a century of Open-class wins when he successfully defended the national longwool title at the Northern Southland Community Shears today. More >>
Record breaker sets the standard for other female shearers
Monday, 15 January 2018, 7:33 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World record breaking King Country shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia has “thrown down the gauntlet” to others in a growing of number top female shearers, her brother said after another tally was put into the record books today. More >>
Shearing record hits early target
Monday, 15 January 2018, 11:00 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Te Kuiti shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia has made an assured start to her record bid in a woolshed east of Eketahuna with a tally of 101 in the two hours. More >>
Mutch travel for big win
Monday, 15 January 2018, 10:59 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It was a bit of a case of the west taking over the east yesterday as four Taranaki and King Country shearers dominated the Open shearing final at the Tauranga A and P Lifestyle Show. More >>
Green light for woman’s shearing record bid
Sunday, 14 January 2018, 8:26 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The green light has been given for shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia’s women’s record attempt in a Wairarapa woolshed tomorrow. More >>
Samuels wins second Te Puna Speedshear
Sunday, 14 January 2018, 7:42 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Marton shearer Jimmy Samuels bounced back from the disappointment of his demise in one speedshear on Friday to claim his second Te Puna Speedshear Open title near Tauranga on Saturday night. More >>
For the record, back to work Monday
Saturday, 13 January 2018, 5:26 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It might not be everybody’s way of easing back to work after the holidays, but it’ll be all go for shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia as she goes for a woman’s record in which she’s expected to shear for nine hours at under 75 seconds a sheep. More >>
Abraham claims big prize in emotional Speedshear
Saturday, 13 January 2018, 12:03 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Wairarapa shearer Paerata Abraham has capped an emotional night of speed shearing in Te Kuiti by beating the organiser and celebrating with a haka tribute to fellow shearer Beau St George, who died in a road crash in France last April. More >>
