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Shearing Record A Struggle But On Target
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 11:07 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A shearing record set just three days ago looks to be under some threat today despite the early struggle challenger Catherine Mullooly is experiencing in a remote North Island west coast woolshed. Starting at 7am at Nukuhakari Station, west of Te Kuiti, ... More >>
On Show: Shearing Competitions Resume
Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 2:34 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Wairoa A and P Shears in a woolshed northwest of Wairoa in 2020. With Cyclone Gabrielle having left long-lasting damage at the town's showgrounds, this year'd shearing championships are also being nheld in a farm woolshed, the third time the ... More >>
New Shearing Record Beckons For Women's Shearing Champion
Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 9:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A 34-year-old mum already with an historic background on the shearing board will on Wednesday turn her hand to challenging a World record bid less than three days old. Catherine Mullooly, from Matawai, Gisborne, will be trying to break the Women’s ... More >>
Gut-busting Record Day For Shearer Amy Silcock
Monday, 8 January 2024, 7:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
386 ewes, 25 tonnes of sheep, 1.35 tonnes of wool Farmer-turned shearer Amy Silcock smashed a World record near Pahiatua today, but the elation was still dimmed by the couple that got way. Shearing under the watch of four World Sheep Shearing Record ... More >>
Sunday Shearing Record Bid
Thursday, 4 January 2024, 4:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Ewe-shearing record hopeful Amy Silcock started shearing because she wanted to see the World and didn’t want to be ”one of those people who gets to 40 and has never done it.” That was when she was 28 and farming, but, now 37, it’s much more than ... More >>
A Tough Day At The Office In A Wairarapa Woolshed
Sunday, 24 December 2023, 1:49 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Masterton shearers Paerata Abraham and Chris Dickson have fallen 20 short of their target in a bid for the World two-stand eight-hours strongwool lambshearing record. But it was a case of if-only for the pair who sheared more than the record of 1410 ... More >>
It's The Men's Turn As Shearing Record Tackled In Wairarapa
Sunday, 24 December 2023, 7:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The pre-record shearing of a sample of 20 lambs for the wool-weigh on Friday afternoon. Wairarapa shearers Paerata Abraham and Chris Dickson face a tough slog in a quest to break two eight hours strongwool lambs record tomorrow (Saturday). The focus in ... More >>
Drama In Wairarapa Woolshed
Saturday, 23 December 2023, 4:22 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Drama is unfolding in a Wairarapa woolshed, where Masterton shearers Paerata Abraham and Chris Dickson are expected to go going right to the wire in their quest for a new World two-stand, eight hours strong wool lambs record. Targeting a record of ... More >>
Shearing Record Blitz Hit Historic Fir Woimen's 700 In A Day
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 5:19 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A former pupil of Tararua College has smashed a record beyond the scope of any scholastic dreams by becoming the first woman in the World to shear 700 sheep in a nine-hour day. Shearing today at Centre Hill, near Mossburn in Southland, Sacha Bond, now based ... More >>
Show Loyalty Wins The Day For Woolhandler Monica Potae
Monday, 4 December 2023, 9:53 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Coromandel woolhandler Monica Potae’s patience and perseverance was rewarded when she won the Open final at the Rotorua A and P Show’s Agrodome Shears on Saturday. An Open-class competitor for 21 years it was just her third win, her first having ... More >>
Eight Weekends Of Show Shearing Competitions In The North
Monday, 27 November 2023, 2:14 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The annual round of eight A and P show shearing competitions kicks-off this Saturday with the Whangarei A and P Show. The competition, a shearing-only championships which was revived in 2020 with the opening of an impressive, new open-sided board, will ... More >>
Doing The Miles - 400km Each Way To Shear At Nelson Show
Monday, 27 November 2023, 9:37 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
North Canterbury shearer Blake Crooks showed all the grit of a champion when he drove close to 400km each way to compete at the Nelson A and P Show on Saturday. With three senior wins behind him this season, including last-start victory at the ... More >>
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 >>
