Shearing Sports New Zealand - Latest News [Page 4]
Former World Champ Bounces Back From Shoulder Operation To Win Taranaki Shears Title
Sunday, 26 November 2023, 2:59 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Former World and Golden Shears champion Gavin Mutch, recovering from a shoulder operation 12 weeks ago, returned to the old stamping-ground of Taranaki to win the Taranaki Shears Open shearing final at the Stratford A and P Show on Saturday. Now ... More >>
Henare Bags 136th Win In Open Woolhandling
Friday, 17 November 2023, 9:20 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Champion woolhandler Joel Henare won the New Zealand Corriedales Open woolhandling championship for a 7th time, and a 3rd time in a row, on the first day of the annual Corriedales shearing and woolhandling competitions in Christchurch yesterday. It ... More >>
Victory By A Shear's Breadth At Central Hawke's Bay Shears
Monday, 13 November 2023, 5:50 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Young Masterton shearer David Gordon scored his biggest Open final win when he beat former World and multiple Golden Shears Open champion John Kirkpatrick at the Central Hawke’s Bay A and P Show in Waipukurau on Saturday. It came the hard way, with ... More >>
All In The Family At Manawatu Show Shears
Sunday, 5 November 2023, 2:25 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Some sort of history was set when Masterton brother and sister Joseph Gordon and Cushla Abraham won the Open shearing and woolhandling finals respectively at the Manawatu and West Coast A and P Show in Feilding on Saturday. But there was even ... More >>
Manawatu Show Shears Bounces Back After Three-year Recess
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 9:45 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Manawatu and West Coast A and P Show’s shearing and woolhandling championships are back with organisers hoping for a full field of entries in Feilding on Saturday after three years in recess. The championships fell victim to Covid restrictions ... More >>
Nathan Stratford On Target For 20th National Shearing Circuit Final
Tuesday, 31 October 2023, 10:31 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two-times national shearing circuit champion Nathan Stratford has set sail for a possible 20th final in the annual all-breeds championship with maximum points in the first two rounds of the 2023-2024 PGG Wrightson/Vetmed series. The Southland ... More >>
First Open Win For Hawke's Bay Woolhandler
Monday, 30 October 2023, 11:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Napier woolhandler Jasmin Tipoki still finds it difficult to believe she’s cracked an Open competition win. But she has, claiming the red ribbon on Saturday at what might have been called her home competition the Wairarapa A and P Show at Clareville ... More >>
Southland Wins Ashburton Shears Shield Defence
Sunday, 29 October 2023, 7:57 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A Southland shearing team, of which the four members all work for the same Gore contractor, has successfully defended the Colin King Shield in the first challenge of the new season. The relay took place on Saturday at the Ashburton A and P Show, ... More >>
Shield Challenge At Ashburton Show
Friday, 27 October 2023, 11:40 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A challenge for South Island shearing trophy the Colin King Shield will be held at the Ashburton A and P Show Shears on Saturday. The trophy is held by Southland, and competition organisers say a challenge has been lodged by the South Island shearing ... More >>
A Home Show Winner At Rangiora Shears
Sunday, 22 October 2023, 6:14 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
North Canterbury shearer Hugh De Lacy scored his first win of the season in a four-man Open final on Saturday at the Northern A and P Show in Rangiora. De Lacy was runner-up at his home show last year after winning at Ellesmere a week earlier, in a season ... More >>
Emotionals Win For Mum At Great Raihania Shears
Sunday, 22 October 2023, 8:26 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Manawatu mum Ngaira Puha started the bounce-back from the tragedy of losing a child when she won the Open woolhandling final at the Hawke’s Bay A and P Show’s Great Raihania Shears yesterday(Friday). Puha, a 27-year-old mum-of-two from Kimbolton, ... More >>
Transtasman Shearing Sports Tests
Sunday, 22 October 2023, 7:00 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Shearing Sports New Zealand team in Australia for the transtasman shearing and woolhandling tests at Jamestown, S.A., on Saturday, from left: Angus Moore (machines), Cushla Abraham (woolhandling), Allen Gemmell (blades), Mark Barrowcliffe (manager ... More >>
The Ranfurly Shield Of Shearing: Where Are The Challengers?
Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 10:20 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It’s a case of have shield will travel for Southland as it seeks to defend the Colin King Shield on an almost anytime-any place basis as it looks for suitable challengers. The Shield was put in place two years ago as a South Island equivalent of rugby’s ... More >>
Just Warming-up, Fagan Getrs A Win At Gisborne
Sunday, 15 October 2023, 7:32 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan sent out another warning that he is out for some big pickings on the Shearing Sports New Zealand circuit this summer when he won the Gisborne Shearing and Woolhandling Championships Open shearing final at the Poverty Bay A ... More >>
Southland Gun Samuels Makes It A Double
Sunday, 8 October 2023, 6:57 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearer and New Zealand representative Leon Samuels completed a double of the traditional first two titles of the Shearing Sports season when he reclaimed the Waimate Spring Shearing Championships Open shearing title in Waimate on Saturday. ... More >>
Top Line-up For Waimate Shears Today And Tomorrow
Friday, 6 October 2023, 7:16 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Most the seven members of the new New Zealand transtasman shearing and woolhandling team are expected to be in action at the Waimate Spring Shears today and tomorrow. Selection of the team was completed last weekend when the Shearing Sports New Zealand ... More >>
Finewool Challenge Starts Shearing Sports Season
Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 10:46 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
An attempt to stop Australia claiming New Zealand’s top finewool shearing title and the selection of a shearer and woolhandler for next month’s transtasman tests will be features of the New Zealand Merino Shears in Alexandra on Friday and Saturday. ... More >>
New Shearing Record Holder Has Been Stacking Up The Numbers Since The Age Iof Seven
Tuesday, 19 September 2023, 12:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Australian shearer Ethan Harder has set the pace for a new World records season by adding 20 to a merino lambs record set less than a year ago. From Bruce rock in inland West Australia,Harder put together the experience of more than a decade of ... More >>
National Shearing Circuit - A "cool" Competition To Be In
Friday, 1 September 2023, 10:36 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Entries are now open for the 2023-2024 PGG Wrightson Vetmed National Shearing Circuit. The series incorporates the McSkimming Memorial Triple Crown which was first presented after a three-round series in 1972-1973, starting at the New Zealand Merino Shearing ... More >>
New Zealand Shearers Shape-up For Big Match At Royal Welsh Show
Tuesday, 25 July 2023, 10:17 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Wools of New Zealand Shearing Sports New Zealand team is closing in on the last stages of its 2023 UK tour with hopes of scoring its first win in the last two tests against Wales. Brothers-in-law Paerata Abraham and David Gordon, of Masterton, were ... More >>