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Merino Shears Open Big Season Shearing Sports In New Zealand

Wednesday, 1 October 2025, 7:10 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The championships on October 3-4 will attract over 100 competitors at the start of a season which includes the 20th Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Masterton. More >>

King Of The Castle - Canterbury Shearer Wins Big Lambs Championship In Northern Ireland

Friday, 1 August 2025, 12:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

In a close contest over 13 lambs each, with just 26 seconds separating the quartet, de Lacy was first-off, in 10m 16s, and also scored the pest points in pen judging, to beat Robinson by 1.257pts. More >>

NZ Shearers' Saving Grace In Last-Test Win Over Wales

Monday, 28 July 2025, 7:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Fagan had the fastest time, the best points in the pens and overall quality points, shearing the 20 lambs in 11m 23s. Henderson was next off, six seconds later and with the best points in judging on the shearing board. More >>

Toa Henderson Takes Royal Welsh Open Shearing Title, But Kiwis Lose Test In The Unindest Cut Of All

Thursday, 24 July 2025, 8:17 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Henderson, who won the recent French Open but failed to qualify for the Cothi Shears Open final in Wales last Saturday, told the crowd it felt “pretty good” to make the final after missing out in Cothi, and he was rapt to win at the Royal Welsh in More >>

Fagan Wins Welsh Speedshear, And Then Turns To The Blades

Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 3:44 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

King Country shearer Jack Fagan has warmed up for his defence of the Royal Welsh Show’s Open all-nations shearing title with a sixth win in the Welsh International Speedshear, and a third place in the show’s Novice bladeshearing. More >>

The Fastest Guns In But NZ Shearers Still Beaten In Wales

Sunday, 20 July 2025, 2:16 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Shearing Welsh lambs at the Cothi Shears, in Carmarthenshire, on Saturday, Gethin Lewis and Llyr Jones beat the Wools of New Zealand team Toa Henderson and Jack Fagan by a comfortable margin of 6.1pts. More >>

NZ Shearers Look Forward To Welsh Challenge

Tuesday, 15 July 2025, 8:42 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The Open at Boussac on Sunday attracted 36 shearers, with Henderson being the top qualifier from the semi-final to the six-man, of 20 blackface lambs each. More >>

Toa Henderson Wins Open Final At French Shears

Monday, 14 July 2025, 7:50 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The win came early today (Monday NZT) at Boussac, where he and Wools of New Zealand national teammate and Open final runner-up Jack Fagan also beat France in a test match. More >>

Shearing: New Zealand Pair Beats England In Great Yorkshire Show Shearing Test Match

Thursday, 10 July 2025, 1:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The test match win followed New Zealand’s loss to Scotland at the Lochearnhead Shears Scottish Black Face championships on June 28 More >>

Shearing: A Kiwi Wins The Race, But The Scots Claim The Prize

Monday, 30 June 2025, 8:14 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Toa Henderson was first off the board, shearing the 14 horned scottish blackface sheep in 9m 40s, beating New Zealand-based Mutch by seven seconds. More >>

International Shearing Test Match: Black Singlet V The "Blackies - Man V Sheep In Scotland

Thursday, 26 June 2025, 8:47 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The challenge has been met successfully by New Zealand shearers in the past, notably last year when Wairarapa shearer David Buick won the Open final, but no New Zealand team has beaten Scotland in any of the mainly-annual test matches at Lochearnhead ... More >>

NZ Lambshearing Championships

Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 8:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Twice the winner of the national crossbred lambs title in Winton, in 2014 and 2017, made the job just clean enough to beat Oamaru shearer Justin Meikle, who had a time points advantage of 1.689pts after finishing over half-a-minute quick and shearing ... More >>

A Kiwi Shearing Gun Bids For World Record In South Africa

Monday, 21 April 2025, 8:20 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The last World shearing record in South Africa was the solo and two-stand merino lambs marks set by South African bladeshearing pair Samuel Juba and Bangali Joel in Victoria West, Northern Cape Province, in February 2006. More >>

NZ Shears Team For Six-Match UK Tour

Thursday, 17 April 2025, 7:27 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand teams have shorn shearing tests in the UK almost annually for more than 30 years, with reciprocal series’ against Wales in New Zealand now held each year. More >>

Henderson Claims The Double, With 25 Sheep In Under 20 Minutes

Sunday, 30 March 2025, 3:45 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Henderson won his first Golden Shears final over 20 sheep, in Masterton four weeks ago and stepped up to a new challenge by shearing the first 25-sheep final in more than three decades in 19m 57.44s. More >>

Abraham Regains NZ Shears Open Speed Shear Title

Saturday, 29 March 2025, 9:02 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Abraham had to wait nine years to add to his back to back pair of 2015 and 2016 and the victory came with the dreaded “DQ” for Welsh shearer Llyr Jones who shore the four-man final of two sheep each in 41sec, at first looking like a win by 1.29sec ... More >>

A Ladies Day At The Shearing, But A Bloke Still Wins

Friday, 28 March 2025, 1:34 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The championships continued on Friday with heats in the lower grades of shearing and woolhandling and the women’s event, with some finals in the evening, and a shearing test between New Zealand and Wales, the championships culminating with the ... More >>

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