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Shearing - Results

Saturday, 24 May 2014, 11:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Results of the first round of the Golden Shears World Machine Shearing Championship first round today in Gorey, Ireland (5 sheep each: More >>

Kiwi team and supporters in charge in Ireland

Friday, 23 May 2014, 1:41 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Six New Zealand shearers, including World Championships representatives Rowland Smith and John Kirkpatrick, have made it to the semi-finals of the Irish All-Nations Open championships semi-final in Gorey, Ireland. More >>

World shearing champs set for Christchurch in 2017

Friday, 23 May 2014, 9:16 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The 2017 World shearing and woolhandling championships will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, says Golden Shears World Council chairman Greg Herrick. More >>

Shearing legend Fagan tips best World final ever

Monday, 19 May 2014, 10:03 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Multiple shearing champion David Fagan is tipping one of the best international competitions the World has scene as the Golden Shears World Championships are held this week in the coastal Co Wexford town of Gorey. More >>

Masterton teen clocks up another country, another win

Sunday, 18 May 2014, 1:34 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Masterton teenager Dylan McGruddy has made a successful start to a Northern Hemisphere shearing career by winning the Balmoral Show’s All Nations intermediate final in Northern Ireland.. More >>

Welsh win Six Nations - at shearing

Sunday, 18 May 2014, 1:32 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Welsh prospects for next week’s Golden Shears World Championships soared when Wales successfully defended their Six Nation’s machine shearing title at the Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland today. More >>

Shear champion stars as Kiwis dominate Ulster shears

Sunday, 18 May 2014, 1:31 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearing champion Rowland Smith looked every bit a likely World champion by the end of the month as he completed a Kiwi cleansweep of top international shearing sports events at the Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland yesterday. More >>

Kiwis shearers seal North Ireland show cleansweep

Saturday, 17 May 2014, 8:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand has completed a cleansweep of the All-Nations shearing and woolhandling events at the Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland with a quinella in today's machine shearing final to World Championships hopes Rowland Smith and John Kirkpatrick. More >>

New Zealand trifecta at Royal Ulster Show

Thursday, 15 May 2014, 1:06 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Canterbury shearer Tony Dobbs has made a successful start to his bid to regain the World title he won 22 years ago by triumphing in the Royal Ulster blades shearing final at the Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland. More >>

Kiwi blades shearer wins in Ireland

Monday, 12 May 2014, 4:04 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A New Zealand shearer in Ireland to help the home team in next week’s Golden Shears World Championships team put his money where his mouth is when he won the opening blades shearing event of the UK season during the weekend. More >>

South Africa arrives in Ireland for World shearing champs

Saturday, 10 May 2014, 3:07 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

South Africa has become the first team to arrive in Ireland for the Golden Shears World shearing and woolhandling championships which will be held in Corey, Co Wexford, on May 22-25. More >>

Kiwi shearer confirms new bid for World record

Monday, 5 May 2014, 12:05 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearer Stacey Te Huia is back in training for another crack at one of the toughest of shearing records after an Australian run which has produced the best results of his occasional competition career. More >>

NZ World Champs hopes on top as season ends downunder

Tuesday, 22 April 2014, 10:29 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand’s hopes for the shearing titles at the Golden Shears World Championships in Ireland next month wrapped up their home season in triumphant form over the Easter weekend. More >>

Blades veteran Dobbs hones in on new World Champs bid

Tuesday, 1 April 2014, 11:36 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The selection of New Zealand’s team for this year’s World shearing and woolhandling championships May has all-but been confirmed after the top two blades shearing hopes finished first and second at the Oxford A and P Show in North Canterbury on Saturday. More >>

NZ Shears results

Sunday, 30 March 2014, 10:41 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Results from the New Zealand Shearing Championships at Te Kuiti on Thursday-Saturday, March 27-29, 2014: Shearing: More >>

Fagan lines-up another big title

Sunday, 30 March 2014, 10:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Five-times World shearing champion David Fagan has kept alive his hopes of at least one final bid for the ultimate glory by qualifying again for tonight’s New Zealand Open championship final in home-town Te Kuiti. More >>

Former shearing champ Avery returns as Open hope in Te Kuiti

Friday, 28 March 2014, 5:07 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Former World shearing champion Paul Avery has grabbed a slim chance of representing his country again by qualifying for the quarterfinals of the New Zealand Open shearing championship in Te Kuiti. More >>

Schoolboy Puna wins another shears title

Friday, 28 March 2014, 4:58 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Manawatu high school student Connor Puha celebrated another successful day away from the classroom by winning the national Novice shearing final in Te Kuiti. More >>

Fagan despairs as big shearing champs loom

Thursday, 27 March 2014, 10:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Multiple World, Golden Shears and national shearing champion David Fagan is giving-up hope on one of his dreams - that he will one day be able to go to the New Zealand championships as just a competitor. More >>

World champ Gavin Mutch scores big win in Taranaki Shears

Monday, 24 March 2014, 12:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Taranaki farmer and Scottish shearer Gavin Mutch has scored a major success ahead of his World title defence in May by winning the Taranaki Shears Open title in Stratford on Sunday. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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