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Results of the Otago Shearing and Woolhandling Championships
Monday, 11 February 2013, 9:50 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing: Open final (20 sheep): Nathan Stratford (Invercargill) 17min 47.69sec, 61.835pts, 1; Cam Ferguson (Waipawa) 17min 16.06sec, 63.903pts, 2; John Kirkpatrick (Napier) 17min 51.78sec, 63.939pts, 3; David Fagan (Te Kuiti) 18min 10.5sec, 65.875pts, ... More >>
Stratford and Rimene star in Otago Shears
Monday, 11 February 2013, 8:34 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two big but popular upsets have dominated the Otago shearing and woolhandling championships in Balclutha with its major shearing title won by a South Islander for only the third time in 31 years and a cleansweep of its two Open woolhandling titles by a competitor ... More >>
Henare on target for sixth Otago wool title
Saturday, 9 February 2013, 10:59 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World champion woolhandler Joel Henare is on target for an amazing sixth consecutive New Zealand Woolhandler of the Year title at the Otago shearing and woolhandling championships in Balclutha. More >>
Buoyed Stratford ready for shears champs breakthrough
Friday, 8 February 2013, 9:14 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford will be looking for a major breakthrough for South Island shearing when he tackles the Open competition at the Otago Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Balclutha tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday. More >>
Two Golden Shears champions sharing in a World Record moment
Thursday, 7 February 2013, 11:24 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
February 5, 2013 Two Golden Shears champions sharing in a World Record moment, the setting of a four-stand lambshearing record for eight hours on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at Centre Hill, northwest of Mossburn, Northern Southland. More >>
Shearers Break 2500 Tally In Southern Chill
Thursday, 7 February 2013, 11:08 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Four shearers have posted a new lambshearing record with more than 2500 lambs in eight hours in the midst of a southern chill today. More >>
Shears Record Gets Green Light, Despite Some Rain
Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 8:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A shearing record challenge on a remote Northern Southland sheep station is expected to go ahead in the morning (Tuesday) despite rain which delayed the crucial pre-event wool-weigh today. More >>
Shearing Record Bid Cancelled
Thursday, 31 January 2013, 10:07 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A World sheep shearing record attempt which was to have taken place today in Central Hawke’s Bay has had to be cancelled because the lambs selected for the event would not have met the requirements of the World Sheep Shearing Records Society. More >>
Hawke’s Bay trio count-down to shearing record
Tuesday, 29 January 2013, 9:57 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Former World Champion and World record-breaking shearer Cam Ferguson is confident he’ll get his name back into the record books on Thursday (January 31) when he and two workmates tackle a woolshed tally record which has gone unchallenged for ... More >>
Honeymoon's Overs Shearer Smith Wins Test And Weekend Double
Monday, 28 January 2013, 10:17 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Hastings shearer Rowland Smith was the man of the moment as he won two weekend championships and stood-in at the last minute for unavailable Southland shearer Nathan Stratford as New Zealand beat Wales in the first test of the three-test Elders Primary Wool ... More >>
Results from the Northern Southland Community Shears
Monday, 21 January 2013, 10:21 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Open final (20 sheep): Nathan Stratford (Invercargill) 19min 40.91sec, 69.246pts, 1; John Kirkpatrick (Napier) 18min 20.86sec, 69.993pts, 2; Darrin Forde (Lorneville/Winton) 18min 6.7sec, 71.435pts, 3; Andy Mainland (Invercargill) 19min 55.28sec, 75.514pts, ... More >>
Welshmen Evan And Jones Head For Big Shear Kiwi Challenge
Monday, 14 January 2013, 3:19 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Welsh shearing team will begin its preparation for a bid to win to become the first Northern Hemisphere team to beat New Zealand in a shearing test series in New Zealand when it opens a six-show tour at Tauranga on Saturday. More >>
Smith repeats win at Peninsula show
Monday, 14 January 2013, 11:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A bit of control under pressure saw Master Shearer and former New Zealand team member Grant Smith safely through the defence of the Peninsula Duvauchelle show’s Open title in a 12-sheep final on Saturday (Jan 12). More >>
Hot summer hots-up for record tally shearers
Friday, 11 January 2013, 11:26 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The World Shearing Records Society has confirmed applications have been received for three record bids over the next five weeks. More >>
The south takes charge of all-breeds shearing
Friday, 23 November 2012, 9:38 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Blenheim shearer Tony Nott, during the semi-finals of the New Zealand Corriedale Championships in Christchurch on November 16. While failing to reach the final, he obtained enough series points to be placed fourth in the PGG Wrightson National after ... More >>
Win win situation as coast shearer comes home – from Oz
Saturday, 17 November 2012, 1:55 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
West Coast shearer Jason Win scored possibly his biggest victory in years of Open class competition at the 150th Canterbury Show today doing what last year’s winner did – making a rush trip from Australia. More >>
Shearing Results from 150th Canterbury Show
Friday, 16 November 2012, 5:46 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Results from the New Zealand Corriedale Championships at the 150th Canterbury Show, Christchurch, November 15-16, 2012: More >>
We’ll win one day, Aussie blades gun promises
Friday, 16 November 2012, 5:43 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New South Wales farmer Peter Artridge may be 50 and just taken another transtasman beating on the blades shearing board, but he isn’t giving up hope that Australia will yet beat their Kiwi rivals in a craft which is otherwise enshrined in outback ... More >>
Sometimes is enough as lady in the office wins title
Friday, 16 November 2012, 10:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing gang office staffer Taiwha Nelson hasn’t done a lot of woolhandling lately, but what she had done proved quite enough practice as she beat two World champions to win the New Zealand Corriedale woolhandling championship More >>
Aussies on top in first shearing sports tests
Monday, 29 October 2012, 9:45 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand has suffered a double defeat in machine shearing and woolhandling tests against Australia in Warnambool, near Melbourne. More >>
