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Shears black singlet at any cost

Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 10:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

It’s costing more than $10,000 each, but that’s the price New Zealand’s top shearers are paying for the chance to represent their country at the World Championships in Masterton in four weeks’ time. More >>

Ten grand for a black singlet

Sunday, 5 February 2012, 1:27 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

It’s costing more than $10,000 each, but that’s the price New Zealand’s top shearers are paying for the chance to represent their country at the World Championships in Masterton in four weeks’ time. More >>

King pins hopes on big wins in the South

Monday, 23 January 2012, 11:59 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

It's five years since Dion King set the nine-hour lambshearing record, and almost another year since he won the Golden Shears Open and PGG Wrightson double at Masterton in 2006. More >>

On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand

Saturday, 21 January 2012, 12:58 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Hawke's Bay shearer and New Zealand representative Dion King scored an important victory when he won the Northern Southland Community Shears Open final near Lumsden today. More >>

Hawke's Bay shearing gun resumes battle of the south

Thursday, 19 January 2012, 5:39 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Three-times Golden Shears champion John Kirkpatrick resumes his annual southern invasion this week with an air of nonchalance entering what some see as possibly the biggest few weeks in his prolific winning career. More >>

Shearing Record Broken

Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 5:46 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A World shearing record which went unchallenged for 16 years has been broken in front of a frenzied crowd of over 150 packed into a King Country woolshed. More >>

Te Huia Set To Go On Big Shearing Record Bid

Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 11:58 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Te Kuiti shearer Stacey Te Huia was taking things all in his stride as he prepared to tackle the World nine-hour ewe-shearing record in a King Country woolshed tomorrow (Wednesday, January 18). More >>

Shearers face big ask in World record bid

Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 11:43 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Shearers Stacey Te Huia and Sam Welch are facing a bit of catch-up in their World nine-hour ewe shearing record bid in the King Country today. More >>

Record bid challenge's shearing's Everest

Saturday, 14 January 2012, 12:06 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

One of the greatest tallies ever shorn in a New Zealand woolshed will be challenged in a two-man World record bid in the King Country on Wednesday. More >>

An apprentice, but still the World's best

Wednesday, 11 January 2012, 9:52 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Kerri-Jo Te Huia may be just an apprentice, but today she became the new face of the shearing World today as she smashed an eight-hour record in a remote King Country woolshed. More >>

New Shearing Record

Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 6:03 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Te Kuiti shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia has smashed a women's record in the King Country today by becoming the first woman to shear more than 500 lambs in eight hours. More >>

Shearing Record

Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 3:50 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Te Kuiti shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia is bolting towards a goal of becoming the first woman to hsear 500 lambs in eight hours after a "magic" run of 133 in the two hours after lunch at Te Hape. More >>

Te Kuiti shearer on target to shatter women's record

Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 11:09 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Te Kuiti shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia is on target to smash a World shearing record and possibly become the first woman to shear 500 lambs in eight hours. Shearing at Te Hape, east of Benneydale in the King Country, Te Huia shore 124 from the start at ... More >>

Irishman Scott reclaims shearing record

Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 10:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

There were some anxious moments in a woolshed near Taupo yesterday, but none handled it better than man-in-the-middle and Irish shearer Ivan Scott as he reclaimed the World eight-hour lambs shearing record. More >>

All go for shearing record bid near Taupo

Monday, 9 January 2012, 10:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

It's all go today for New Zealand-based Irish shearing champion Ivan Scott as he tries to wrestle-back the World eight-hour lambshearing record at Opepe, just southeast of Taupo on State Highway 5. More >>

Woolhandlers take spotlight at national lambshearing champs

Monday, 2 January 2012, 11:48 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The pressure will be on New Zealand ’s top woolhandlers at the Western Shears’ national lambshearing championships in Raglan on Saturday(January 7) as they resume a year-long competition to find two representatives for the World Championships in ... More >>

Shearing record bids announced

Saturday, 24 December 2011, 4:33 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Family ties will link two World shearing record attempts being made at Te Hape Station in the King Country woolshed next month. More >>

Shearing Sports: Winning return for NZ champ Smith

Monday, 21 November 2011, 10:21 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Reigning New Zealand Open shearing champion Rowland Smith during the weekend became the latest top North Island shearer to venture south to win the Open title at the Nelson A and P Show Shears. More >>

Four in a row for Southland shearing gun

Sunday, 20 November 2011, 4:50 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The small township of Tapanui continues to be happy hunting ground for leading South Island shearer Nathan Stratford who won the centennial West Otago A and P Show’s Open shearing title on Saturday. More >>

Results of major Shearing Sports NZ events at the weekend

Monday, 14 November 2011, 10:14 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Shearing (12 sheep): Australia 318.523pts (Shannon Warnest 19min 33.63sec, 92.85pts; Nathan Meaney 21min 47.17sec, 105.89pts; Mark Buscomb 22min 23sec, 116.98pts) beat New Zealand 329.134pts (Tony Coster 20min 45.45sec, 107.27pts; Colin O’Neil 21min ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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