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NZ V Wales Shearing Test This Weekend
Friday, 14 March 2025, 10:51 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Mate v mate as Kiwis chase revenge in shears test match More >>
Henderson's Weekend Double - A Show Title And The Rural Games Speed Shear
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 8:37 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Just a week after the biggest success of his career in Masterton, Kaiwaka’s favourite gun shore the six-man 20-sheep final in Kumeu on Saturday in 16m 2.09s, pipping Te Kuiti gun Jack Fagan by just 1.63 seconds. More >>
Two Goldies Winners Shine At Cheviot
Monday, 10 March 2025, 8:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Henare is now on target for a 10th No 1 Open woolhandling ranking when the certificates are handed-out at the New Zealand Shears in Te Kuiti on March 27-29, with he and seven-times No 1 Keryn Herbert, of Te Kuiti, each having five wins this season. More >>
Axle Grinds Way To First Open Shearing Win
Monday, 10 March 2025, 8:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Axle Reid, who is also a qualified shearing judge, is shearing for Grant Smith, having decided to go south as the work eased-off in Hawke’s Bay, and plans to do other shows in the area. More >>
Big Miles Pay Off For Northland New Shearing Star
Sunday, 2 March 2025, 7:50 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
34-year-old Henderson won with remarkable comfort in a final that started wide-open after the elimination of defending champion Leon Samuels, eight-times winner Rowland Smith, four-times winner John Kirkpatrick and 2015 victor Gavin Mutch in the quarterfinals ... More >>
New Winner In The Wimbledon Of Shearing
Saturday, 1 March 2025, 7:42 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The final, of 20 sheep each and starting about 9.30pm, will be the last of five events on the final night of the 63rd Golden Shears, preceded by the National Shearing Circuit final, a Transtasman shearing test match, the Golden Shears Open woolhandling final, ... More >>
Revenge For Black Shirts In Trannstasman Woolhandling
Saturday, 1 March 2025, 5:33 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand has now won 37 of the 49 tests between the two nations since transtasman woolhandling matches began in 1998. More >>
Big Local Win In Golden Shears Speedshear
Friday, 28 February 2025, 4:56 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
With former winners Jack Fagan, of Te Kuiti, and fellow Masterton shearer Paerata Abraham eliminated along the way - with a combined total of well over 100 speedshear wins between them - Chris Dickson shore the first of the crutched and bellied sheep ... More >>
Young Guns In Charge On Goldies Opening Day
Friday, 28 February 2025, 6:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Char Taylor, based in Cheviot and learning the craft in the woolsheds of North Canterbury, won the Novice woolhandling final Thursday, the first day of the three-day championships. More >>
Golden Moment For Young Hopes As Golden Shears Start In Masterton
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 7:00 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The biggest entries are in the shearing with 74 in the Novice grade and 72 Juniors, while in the Novice grade 25 have been listed in the Novice event and 47 in the Junior grade, among them Gisborne teenager Jodiesha Kirkpatrick having two goes at a “Goldies”, ... More >>
Women's World Shearing Record: Team Alexia Does It Inn Merino Shearing Record In West Australia
Sunday, 23 February 2025, 2:58 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The record took place at Spring Valley Farm, Darkan, about 200km southeast of Perth More >>
Women's Shearing Record Under Way In West Australia
Saturday, 22 February 2025, 3:04 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Alexia (“Lexi”) Phillips, from Waikato, is attempting the women’s solo eight-hours merino ewes record at Spring Valley Farm, Darkan, about 200km southeast of Perth. More >>
Golden Shears Entries Pass 400 As Big Annual Festival Looms
Friday, 21 February 2025, 9:07 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Entries are expected to increase even more next year when the programme extends to four days to include the 2026 World Championships. More >>
Early Start For Golden Shears Punters
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 8:55 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The shearing circuit, which tests the versatility of shearers over five different wool types, started with a possible record 38 entries when the first round was held at the New Zealand Merino (finewool) championships in Alexandra in late-September. More >>
The Big Breakthrough - Shearer Of The Year Win For Corey Palmer
Monday, 17 February 2025, 7:21 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Palmer hadn’t won a final since graduating after winning six Senior finals in the 2012-2013 season, including the 2013 Golden Shears Senior title in Masterton, but he had increasingly started mixing it with the top guns, including third place seven ... More >>
Ladies Day As Three Women Win At Ohura Shears
Monday, 17 February 2025, 9:36 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
They were Laura Bradley, a mum and farmer from Papatawa, Sarah Bryant of Arohena and Jodiesha Kirkpatrick, of Gisborne. More >>
World Champs Hopefuls Start Selection Series At Southern Shears
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 10:50 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
By Thursday morning Shearing Sports New Zealand had received 31 woolhandling entries and 27 from shearers, with points available at a selection of shows over the next 12 months leading to finals and confirmation of the team at the Rangitikei Shearing ... More >>
$20,000 To Shear A Lamb In 19.78 Seconds
Sunday, 9 February 2025, 9:29 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The win also includes a trip to Wales with the Wagga Wagga Speed Shear team, in which he also shore in Wales last July after winning the Wagga Wagga event three months earlier. More >>
Stratford Leads The Way In National Shearing Circuit
Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 7:35 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Led by defending champion, three-times winner and near perennial top qualifier Nathan Stratford, of Invercargill, the 10 were among 20 who resumed the battle for places in the qualifying dozen in the lambshearing round at the Rangitikei Shearing Sports ... More >>
Finally Got One - Ngaio Hanson's First Open Woolhandling Win
Monday, 3 February 2025, 8:47 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Eketahuna woolhandler Ngaio Hanson has had a stellar two years in representing New Zealand at the 2023 World Championships in Scotland and in this season’s transtasman test matches. But it reached another level on Friday when she the Danevirke A and ... More >>
