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World champ coasts home in wooly coast-to-coast warm-up
Saturday, 5 February 2011, 7:10 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World champ coasts home in wooly coast-to-coast warm-up A Taranaki farmer and World champion had his biggest win of the season today, but doesn’t think it’ll affect his odds for the next big challenge – the Coast to Coast next Friday and Saturday. More >>
Shearing great Ray Alabaster dies
Friday, 4 February 2011, 10:18 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The sheep shearing scene across New Zealand and throughout the World is mourning the loss of former great Ray Alabaster who died on Wednesday. From Taihape, Mr Alabaster competed as a teenager at the first Golden Shears in 1961 and became one of the greatest ... More >>
Shearing great Ray Alabaster dies
Friday, 4 February 2011, 9:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The sheep shearing scene across New Zealand and throughout the World is mourning the loss of former great Ray Alabaster who died at his Taihape home on Wednesday. Mr Alabaster, who was 65, competed as a teenager at the first Golden Shears in 1961 ... More >>
Shearing record bid cancelled
Tuesday, 1 February 2011, 11:01 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A World eight-hour lamb shearing record bid which was to have been made in a woolshed near Taupo this week has been cancelled after organisers were unable to guarantee enough suitable lambs at the late stage of the season. The attempt, announced just ... More >>
Change of date for shearing record
Friday, 28 January 2011, 9:57 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Irish shearer Ivan Scott's bid to regain the World eight-hour lambshearing record has been deferred for two days to ensure the sheep are up for the challenge. Originally scheduled for next Tuesday, the attempt on the mark of 742 set by Golden Shears and ... More >>
Surprise second record bid for Irish shearer
Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 3:50 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Irish shearer Ivan Scott will make a surprise bid to regain the World eight-hour lambs shearing record next Tuesday. The 29-year-old South Island-based shearer's plans were confirmed with the World Sheep Shearing Records Society yesterday and ... More >>
King Country guns rule in Tauranga shears
Sunday, 23 January 2011, 1:12 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
King Country guns rule in Tauranga shears Shearing veterans David Fagan and Digger Balme kept the King Country flag aloft as they dominated two events in the Bay of Plenty on Saturday, shutting out two more young guns from Hawke's Bay. More >>
Hawke's Bay shearing gun still tops in the south
Sunday, 16 January 2011, 7:27 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand January 16, 2011 Hawke's Bay shearing gun still tops in the south It may have been a thousand kilometres from home but Hawke's Bay shearer John Kirkpatrick was right at home as he cleaned-up the two major titles ... More >>
Shears record not out of reach, says former holder
Saturday, 15 January 2011, 9:18 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
MEDIA RELEASE On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand January 14, 2011. Shears record not out of reach, says former holder An Irishman's dream of becoming the World's fastest shearer in a woolshed near Taupo vanished in despair as he gave up early ... More >>
Ewes record with pics
Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 1:57 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing brothers Doug and Rowland Smith today stamped a mark on shearing history by hammering an 11-year-old record by 80 sheep in a Hawke's Bay woolshed. The pair, who grew up in Ruawai in the Far North but are based in Hawke's Bay, shore a combined ... More >>
On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand
Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 10:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Champ Cam slams lamb record in King Country heat. World champion shearer Cam Ferguson today logged another magic moment in an amazing 15 months of triumph when he set a new World shearing tally record in the heat of a King Country woolshed. More >>
Picture from Shearing Sports NZ of Record Attempt
Monday, 10 January 2011, 1:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World champion shearer Cam Ferguson, of Waipawa, pictured druing his attempt on the World eight-hour strongwool lambshearing record today at Moketenui Station, between Te Kuiti and Benneydale. He has to shearer 736 to beat the record set by Canterbury-based ... More >>
Tough day ahead for champ's record bid
Monday, 10 January 2011, 10:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World shearing champion Cam Ferguson now has the job ahead of him in his bid for a lambs record after falling one behind the run-by-run target after the first two hours of his eight-hour challenge at Moketenui Station, between Te Kuiti and Benneydale. More >>
It's all on in shear records week
Sunday, 9 January 2011, 6:55 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It's all on in shear records week Hawke's Bay shearer Cam Ferguson is all set for his bid to cap an amazing 10 month rise to the top with a World record bid in a King Country woolshed tomorrow (monday). More >>
National Lambshearing Champs - Results
Sunday, 9 January 2011, 5:26 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
RESULTS from the National Lambshearing Championships at the Western Shears in Raglan, on Saturday, January 8 , 2011 (* denotes quality benchmark relegation) : More >>
Big shears matches for Kiwi heartland
Sunday, 9 January 2011, 5:25 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
January 9, 2011. Big shears matches for Kiwi heartland Some of New Zealand's smallest towns will get to see the best shearers in the World as two teams from Britain take-on New Zealand World champion guns Cam Ferguson and David Fagan over the next three ... More >>
Big shears matches for Kiwi heartland
Wednesday, 5 January 2011, 12:25 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Some of New Zealand's smallest towns will get to see the best shearers in the World as two teams from Britain take-on New Zealand World champion guns Cam Ferguson and David Fagan over the next three months. More >>
World champ goes for national title, then the record
Wednesday, 5 January 2011, 12:23 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World record bid preparations aren't disrupting the routine of champion shearer Cam Ferguson who will contest the national lambs championships on Saturday, just two days before trying to break a record of 736 lambs in eight hours. More >>
Aussie stint made it for new Kiwi shearing hero
Thursday, 23 December 2010, 11:33 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
An unbroken run of 79 days shearing in West Australia earlier this year proved the making of the man as King Country shearer Stacey Te Huia came back from a failed World eight-hour ewe-shearing record last January to smash the record today despite ... More >>
World shearing record bid
Wednesday, 22 December 2010, 7:32 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand December 22, 6pm Stacey Te Huia, 30, of Te Kuiti, has just set a new World eight-hour strong wool ewe shearing record of 603 at Moketenui, between Te Kuiti and Benneydale. More >>
