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Smith v The Rest “Whose Goldie is it anyway?”

Sunday, 6 March 2016, 11:06 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Wairarapa tonight fields its greatest-ever hope of a home-region win in the Golden Shears Open final – but for the might of two-metre Hawke’s Bay giant and World champion Rowland Smith. More >>

How hot can it get at the Golden Shears Open?

Saturday, 5 March 2016, 3:42 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The hottest TAB favourite in the history of the Golden Shears has become even hotter as the World’s biggest annual shearing competition enters its final day in Masterton today. More >>

Defending champ Mutch out as Smith sets sights

Saturday, 5 March 2016, 3:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Reigning Golden Shears Open champion Gavin Mutch is out of the race to defend his title after being a shock elimination in the Top 30 quarterfinals shootout in Masterton tonight. More >>

Kiwis make it 2-0 in woolhandling series

Saturday, 5 March 2016, 3:38 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The New Zealand woolhandling team of former World champions Joel Henare and Sheree Alabaster has completed a 2-0 home-and-away Transtasman Trohy series win with a comfortable victory over Australia in Masterton tonight. More >>

Favourite midfield, defending champ on top at Goldies Open

Friday, 4 March 2016, 4:46 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

World champion shearer Rowland Smith has sent a minor flutter through the Golden Shears followers in Masterton by finishing well-down the pack in the opening round of this year’s Open championship. More >>

Woolhandling evergreens just do it for fun

Friday, 4 March 2016, 1:45 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Woolhandling competition stayers Oti Mason and Mii Nooroa were hardly disappointed to be eliminated so early in the Golden Shears heats today. More >>

Punters back Rowland Smith to win Golden Shears

Friday, 4 March 2016, 11:07 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The short-price on Golden Shears Open shearing championship favourite Rowland Smith isn’t deterring punters as the event starts its preliminary stages in Masterton today. More >>

Golden Shears - Winner

Friday, 4 March 2016, 10:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Darren Bryant, 18, of Levin, on his way to winning the Golden Shears Novice shearing final on the first day of the 56th Golden Shears international shearing and woolhandling championships in Masterton today(Thursday). More >>

Golden Shears Results

Friday, 4 March 2016, 10:17 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Results from finals and heats on the first day of the 56th Golden Shears International Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Masterton on Thursday, March 3, 2016: More >>

Surprise hope heads Welsh race for 3rd Goldies junior titlle

Friday, 4 March 2016, 9:42 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A young Welsh farmer has drawn first blood chasing a third consecutive Golden Shears Junior shearing title by heading the qualifier’s for Friday’s semi-finals. More >>

Golden Shears start – an 11-year-old throws his stuff

Thursday, 3 March 2016, 11:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

An 11-year-old Dannevirke schoolboy has taken the limelight on the opening morning of the 56th Golden Shears which opened in Masterton today. More >>

Shearing giant Smith short-priced Golden Shears favourite

Monday, 29 February 2016, 11:47 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Two-metres tall World champion Hawke’s Bay shearer Rowland Smith is likely to become the shortest-priced favourite in the history of TAB betting on the Golden Shears after annihilating a field of the next best at the Pahiatua Shears today(Sunday). More >>

Berkelaar off to the Goldies, with Kaikoura ribbon in kit

Monday, 29 February 2016, 9:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Canterbury-based Australian shearer Abraham Berkelaar scored a morale-boosting win ahead of the biggest shearing challenge of his career when he won the Kaikoura A and P Show’s Open final yesterday. More >>

Scots hope for NZ title

Monday, 29 February 2016, 9:35 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Champion Scottish shearer and Taranaki farmer Gavin Mutch took another step towards another major milestone when he qualified for the chance to become New Zealand’s top all-breeds shearer. More >>

Kiwis wins shearing series

Monday, 29 February 2016, 9:28 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A 5-0 loss to New Zealand in the CP Wool Shearing Series has done nothing to dampen the spirits of the Welsh team which wants to come back next year for more. More >>

King and Coster do it for NZ in CP Wool test in Gore

Sunday, 21 February 2016, 3:47 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A north-south combo of shearer Dion King, from Hawke’s Bay, and Tony Coster, from Canterbury, has guaranteed New Zealand a CP Wool Shearing Series victory over Wales with a third-straight win at the Southern Shears in Gore. More >>

Close race in national shearing

Saturday, 20 February 2016, 2:55 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A close battle is expected for the last three places in this year’s Wrightson PGG National when the last of the five qualifying rounds is held during the Pahiatua Shears next week (Sunday, February 28). More >>

Henare regains Gore title

Saturday, 20 February 2016, 2:34 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Former World champion Joel Henare further cemented his favouritism to claim a fourth consecutive Golden Shears Open title in two weeks’ time when he won the Southern Shears Open title in Gore yesterday. More >>

Southland Triumph as Clean-Cut Stratford Beats Smith

Sunday, 14 February 2016, 1:57 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The Otago Shears open shearing title is back in the South Island after a classic quality performance from More >>

Shears competitions heat-up in Balclutha

Friday, 12 February 2016, 9:48 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The business end of the competition shearing and woolhandling season has started in earnest with the opening of the two-day Otago Shears in Balclutha today. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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