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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 >>
Cool Operator - Emergency Nurese On To A Winner, At Shearing
Sunday, 28 January 2024, 9:45 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A 22-year-old emergency department nurse who sheared sheep mainly to pay her way through her studies is continuing to claim winning ribbons in a continuing drive to help keep shearing competitions going in the top of the south. The latest success ... More >>
It Was A Huge Weekend For Shearing Sports In New Zealand, With Six Shows In Three Days
Monday, 22 January 2024, 5:49 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two wins in two days - 1000km apart Masterton shearer Paerata Abraham had scored just three show-shearing Open final wins in more than a decade of trying until he won two titles at the weekend – 24 hours and over 1000km apart. On Saturday he ... More >>
Shearing Record Update
Friday, 19 January 2024, 9:38 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Record shearing hopefuls Hemi Braddick, Flynn Harvey and Ray Kinsman are well ahead of the target pace chasing a new World mark for strongwool ewes in eight hours on what promises to be an excrutiatingly hot day in a Southern Hawke’s Bay woolshed. ... More >>
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 >>
