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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 >>

Kiwis last chance to claim Welsh shearing series

Friday, 22 July 2011, 7:59 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearers Rowland Smith and Dion King have been beaten in the penultimate test of a UK tour, leaving one last chance to claim a series victory over Wales this weekend. More >>

Kiwi shearers bounce back in UK

Sunday, 10 July 2011, 12:32 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

MEDIA RELEASE On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand July 10, 2011 Kiwi shearers bounce back in UK New Zealand shearers have had major success in Britain overnight with a win over England in a test match and yet another victory for veteran David ... More >>

Shearing Test

Monday, 4 July 2011, 2:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Kiwis shearers Rowland Smith and Dion King are struggling to post their first victory together in the New Zealand singlet after being beaten by Scottish pair Hamish Mitchell and Gavin Mutch on Sunday. More >>

Second defeat for NZ shearers in UK

Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 9:24 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The New Zealand shearing team has had its second defeat in two shearing tests on a tour of Britain, being beaten by a United Kingdom during the weekend. More >>

Kiwi shearers beaten in first test

Sunday, 19 June 2011, 2:03 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearers Rowland Smith and Dion King have suffered a narrow loss to England in the opening international of a test series in the UK. More >>

Golden Shears UK title for Kiwi shears champ

Wednesday, 8 June 2011, 3:50 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearing champion Rowland Smith has won the British Golden Shears open title by winning a six-man final at the Royal Bath and West Show in England. More >>

New kiwi shears champ pips older bro in UK

Thursday, 26 May 2011, 10:13 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New national shearing champion Rowland Smith has hit early winning form on his first international tour in Britain by beating older brother Matthew in the final of the Devon County Open. More >>

Shearing Championships Results

Sunday, 3 April 2011, 2:29 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

MEDIA RELEASE On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand April 3, 2011. 9.20am SHEARS - RESULTS Results from the New Zealand Shearing Championships at Te Kuiti on March 31-April 2: International (12 lambs): New Zealand 89.217pts (Cam Ferguson 11min 3.66sec, ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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