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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 >>
Aussies hammer Kiwis in Christchurch shears tests
Sunday, 13 November 2011, 2:13 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Led by former World champion Shannon Warnest, the Australian shearing and woolhandling team scored a series of stunning victories at the New Zealand Corriedale Championships in Christchurch yesterday. More >>
Shears champ retires, and tackles sport's longest day
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 9:55 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Taranaki shearer Paul Avery has given up the chance of another World shearing title to tackle the World Multisport Championship in the Coast-to-Coast one-day endurance event. More >>
Buick powers to first big Open win
Monday, 7 November 2011, 10:50 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Wairarapa farmer David Buick emerged from a geographical wilderness and years of living in the shadow of New Zealand’s top shearers to win his first Open title at the Manawatu A and P Show on Saturday. More >>
Coster coasts to early win in big shears series warm-up
Monday, 24 October 2011, 8:54 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
National multi-breeds shearing champion Tony Coster got in some early winning form in what he hopes will be the biggest season of his career by claiming the Northern A and P Show Open title in Rangiora on Saturday. More >>
Wool champion dedicates wins to killed boss
Monday, 24 October 2011, 8:52 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Leading woolhandler Keryn Herbert has some big goals for the new season, but on Friday all the motivation was emotional as she retained the Great Raihania Shears Open title and dedicated the triumph to her “boss” who was killed in a farm accident ... More >>
Dion King beats a top quality lineup
Monday, 17 October 2011, 1:59 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand representative Dion King had to put in one of his better performances of quality shearing to beat a top quality lineup and deny the legendary David Fagan a memorable double in the new season’s first North Island shearing competition ... More >>
Win and loss for Kiwi shears team in Australia
Monday, 10 October 2011, 10:09 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand has started its annual home and away transtasman shearing and woolhandling series’ with mixed success at the Royal Show in Perth, West Australia yesterday (Saturday). More >>
Fagan hits half-century on top - again
Monday, 10 October 2011, 9:31 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing icon David Fagan has again shown that advancing age is still no bar to success on the competition board by winning his last competition before turning 50. More >>
Kiwi shears hopes invade Australian west
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 1:14 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing gun John Kirkpatrick returns to the territory of an unlikely former triumph at the Perth Royal Show this week as New Zealand tackles the 50th Transtasman Shearing Test, the first leg of an annual home-and-away series which began in 1974. More >>
One each as Kiwis share merino champs spoils
Saturday, 1 October 2011, 8:07 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
South Island shearers Grant Smith and Charlie O’Neill kept the New Zealand flag flying with victory in the first Tri-Nations Machine Shearing Challenge which brought together six of the best finewool shearers in the World in Alexandra last night. More >>
Shearing Tri-Nations
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 9:40 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Central Otago town of Alexandra is making-up for sitting out much of the Rugby World Cup in the shadow of star-struck neighbour Queenstown by staging its own Tri-Nations this week – at sheep shearing. More >>
Kiwi guns head home tails-up after shears win
Wednesday, 27 July 2011, 12:51 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The New Zealand shearing team of Dion King and Rowland Smith has ended its UK tour with a series-winning victory over Wales. More >>
