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I'm ready, says jockey-sized shearing record hopeful

Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 10:25 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Diminutive Napier shearer Steve Stoney says he's ready for his crack at shearing's ultimate record goal on Friday despite the enormity of a task of shearing almost 100 lambs every 60 minutes for nine hours, and being both the eldest and the smallest ... More >>

World shearing record bid

Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 11:09 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

MEDIA RELEASE On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand World shearing record bid in Hawke's Bay next week The first World shearing record of the season is set to take place next week when former three-stand record holder Steve Stoney tackles the ... More >>

Captain Kirky flies in for inter-island double

Monday, 15 November 2010, 10:25 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Hawke's Bay shearer John Kirkpatrick made the best of a busy weekend by winning two open championship finals just 24 hours apart in Christchurch and Waipukurau at the weekend. More >>

Kiwis steal the show in Aussie shears raid

Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 10:51 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Kiwi shearers and woolhandlers recovered some of the transtasman mana lost in the All Blacks’ defeat by the Wallabies at the weekend by all-but shutting Australians out of the serious money at a major show in southwest Victoria. Suited by the sheep ... More >>

King regains crown as The King dips out

Monday, 25 October 2010, 12:33 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Napier shearer Dion King regained the Great Raihania Shears Open title at the Hawke’s Bay Show in Hastings on Friday – beating veteran reigning champion and season’s frontrunner David Fagan off the board by almost three sheep. More >>

Results of Northern A and P Show Shears

Monday, 25 October 2010, 12:32 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Results of Northern A and P Show Shears at Rangiora on Saturday, October 23, 2010: More >>

Results of the Great Raihania Shears

Monday, 25 October 2010, 12:31 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Results of the Great Raihania Shears at the Hawke’s Bay A and P Show on Friday, October 22, 2010: More >>

Fagan for sale

Thursday, 14 October 2010, 11:16 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Shearing wife Wendy Fagan found just the way to celebrate husband David's 49th birthday yesterday - she's selling his latest winning singlet for charity. More >>

Kiwis primed for wool board tests in Aussie raid

Thursday, 14 October 2010, 9:44 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand’s biggest-ever shearing and woolhandling team has crossed the Tasman determined to claim the first away test-match cleansweep over Australia in eight years in a remote corner of New South Wales on Saturday. A unique representation ... More >>

Fagan fires-up with win No 604

Monday, 11 October 2010, 9:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

New Zealand shearing icon David Fagan has the pundits guessing again after annihilating the best of the rest in Waimate on Saturday for his 604th win in 29 years of Open-class shearing competition around the World. More >>

Woolshed break no worry for tough mum Taiwha

Monday, 4 October 2010, 9:29 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

A five-year-break from the woolsheds has done nothing to take the shine off Invercargill mother-of-three Taiwha Nelson who won her third New Zealand Merino Championships open woolhandling title in Alexandra on Saturday. More >>

Rare Aussie win in NZ merino champs

Monday, 4 October 2010, 9:27 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

An Australian shearer with his back supported by a sling has upset the Kiwi guns to win the first title of the New Zealand shearing season. More >>

Rare Aussie Win In NZ Merino Champs

Sunday, 3 October 2010, 2:02 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

An Australian shearer has upset the Kiwi guns to win the 1st title of the NZ shearing season. But there was still some Kiwi success, with hometown girl Tawhai Nelson scoring the biggest triumph of her career by winning the Open woolhandling title. More >>

Big shearing stars, small towns

Saturday, 25 September 2010, 11:48 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand

Many of New Zealand's smallest communities will host some of the country's most successful sports stars as a season comprising 60 shearing sports competitions throughout New Zealand starts next week. More >>

Kiwis crush Welsh in shears tour swansong

Monday, 26 July 2010, 3:55 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand

The New Zealand shearing and woolhandling team has ended its World Championships tour in the UK with a cleansweep of the six major events at the Corwen Shears in North East Wales during the weekend. Going straight from their success in winning ... More >>