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Brave Stratford effort, but Australia win shearing test

Monday, 10 October 2016, 12:14 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Australia regained transtasman shearing match supremacy with a big win over the Shearing Sports New Zealand team last night at Warialda, New South Wales. In the first-leg of an annual home-and-away series, with three from each country shearing 16 sheep ... More >>

Stratford ends Aussie’s winning run

Sunday, 2 October 2016, 10:14 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford made a big start to the new competition season when he ended West Australian gun Damien Boyle’s six-year reign as New Zealand Merino Shears Open champion in Alexandra last night (Saturday). More >>

Big shearing sports season opens in Alexandra

Friday, 30 September 2016, 10:19 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

One of the biggest seasons in New Zealand shearing sports has begun with the national Merino Championships in the Central Otago town of Alexandra today and tomorrow. More >>

Scott remains ahead of target in World Record bid

Monday, 1 August 2016, 1:18 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

An Irish shearer with a team of New Zealand helpers is setting up an afternoon of high drama in England as he tries to break a World record in which a Kiwi gun shore a lamb every 37.41 seconds for nine hours. More >>

Kiwi’s shearing record under threat

Monday, 1 August 2016, 1:12 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Another shearing record set in New Zealand is under threat as Irish gun Ivan Scott tackles one of the ultimate goals in the woolshed. More >>

Irishman Scott has Kiwis in the corner

Monday, 1 August 2016, 12:53 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

He may not be a Kiwi, but Irish shearer Ivan Scott’s attempt on the World nine-hour strongwool lambshearing record in England tonight is all-but a Kiwi affair. More >>

Irish shearer breaks World record in historic day in Cornwal

Monday, 1 August 2016, 10:09 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

An Irish shearer who made New Zealand his shearing season home has today broken a New Zealand shearer’s World record, with a band of New Zealand helpers. More >>

Another delay for Ivan Scot’s lambs record bid

Monday, 1 August 2016, 10:04 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Irish shearer Ivan Scott’s bid to become the first non-New Zealand shearer to hold the the World ninehour strongwool lambshearing record has been postponed a further 24 hours because of rain. More >>

World lambshearing record postponed

Friday, 29 July 2016, 11:16 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A second World shearing record attempt at the same venue where Kiwi gun Matt Smith put his own mark on history earlier this week has been postponed for 24 hours because of wet weather. More >>

New Zealand shearer Matt Smith smashes shearing record in UK

Wednesday, 27 July 2016, 10:59 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearer Matt Smith has this morning in England smashed the World solo nine-hours ewe shearing record with a new tally of 731 in the first World shearing record ever attempted in the Northern Hemisphere. More >>

Kiwi shearer rocketing towards World record in the UK

Wednesday, 27 July 2016, 10:57 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Hawke’s Bay shearer Matt Smith was tonight at least a sheep-up per hour in his bid for the first World shearing record ever to be shorn in the Northern Hemisphere. More >>

All go for NZ shearer Smith’s record in the UK

Tuesday, 26 July 2016, 10:28 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearer Matt Smith will today step-out where no one else has before him to tackle the supreme sheep shearing record of 721 strongwool ewes in nine hours – in England. More >>

Kiwis in charge at Corwen

Monday, 25 July 2016, 11:46 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearers John Kirkpatrick and Rowland Smith have had a dramatic and triumphant end to their CP Wool UK tour by winning the final test against Wales and finishing first and second in a hectic-paced Corwen Shears Open final. More >>

NZ shearers in Wales

Friday, 22 July 2016, 11:03 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

World champion shearer Rowland Smith has become the fifth New Zealander in 10 years to win the Royal Welsh Open title. More >>

Challenge ahead as CP Wool tour heads to Royal Welsh Show

Monday, 18 July 2016, 9:31 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The New Zealand shearing team of Hawke’s Bay guns John Kirkpatrick and Rowland Smith have the challenge ahead of them as they try to win the last two tests of their CP Wool UK Tour and become the first New Zealand team in five years to beat Wales ... More >>

CP Wool UK Tour: The Kiwis win again

Thursday, 14 July 2016, 9:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The New Zealand shearing team has continued its winning form on the 2016 CP Wool UK Tour with a big double today at the Great Yorkshire at Harrogate, England. More >>

Smith makes it eight in a row for NZ at Lakeland Shears

Monday, 11 July 2016, 9:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Hawke’s Bay shearers Rowland Smith and John Kirkpatrick have continued their good form in the UK by extending New Zealand’s run of successes in the Lakelands Shears Open final in England to eight wins in a row. More >>

Kiwi shearers break long drought in Scotland

Monday, 4 July 2016, 10:02 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearers Rowland Smith and John Kirkpatrick have broken a 13-year jinx to beat Scotland in a test match at the Lochearnhead Shears during the weekend. More >>

Kiwi guns tackle great Scots in shearing test

Thursday, 30 June 2016, 4:42 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearers Rowland Smith and John Kirkpatrick will be out for a bit of payback when they take on Scotland in a one-off shearing test at the start of their CP Wool UK Tour this weekend. More >>

Alexander’s senior win at Bath and West

Wednesday, 8 June 2016, 9:57 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

It’s a long way from Whangamomona to Somerset, but distance has been no barrier for Taranaki shearer Darren Alexander who has celebrated his first trip to England by winning a title at one of England’s major shows. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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