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A Royal Show As Coasties Storm The North
Monday, 5 April 2010, 9:47 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Coasties came to town and left with almost all the goodies at the Royal Easter Show's Northern Shears in Auckland on Saturday. Napier-based John Kirkpatrick, who grew-up on the East Coast, won the Open shearing final, while the Golden Shears senior ... More >>
Dramatic Decider In Blade Shears
Sunday, 4 April 2010, 1:11 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Canterbury workmates Brian Thomson and Allan Gemmell have won the two blade-shearing places in Shearing Sports New Zealand's team for the 14th Golden Shears World Championships in Wales this year after a dramatic last round of their qualifying series today at ... More >>
Last Clip For Blade Shearing Hopes
Saturday, 3 April 2010, 12:57 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand's depleting band of blades shearers gather in the small Canterbury town of Oxford tomorrow (saturday) to decide who will clip for their country at the World shearing and woolhandling champnionships in Wales in July. More >>
A bet for the shear fun of it
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 9:44 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The TAB has opened up multi-bet options on shearing for the first time with a series of head-to-head match-ups for the New Zealand open title which will be decided in Te Kuiti on April 10. More >>
Napier gun's king-hit as shears showdown looms
Monday, 22 March 2010, 9:26 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The cautionary New Zealand Shearing Championships odds on Napier shearer Dion King looked well-founded when he won the the latest lead-up event in Raetihi on Saturday. More >>
Black singlets on a roll in shearing test
Monday, 22 March 2010, 9:24 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand is headed for a second consecutive whitewash in home shearing series' against Wales after a convincing win as test-match shearing came to to tiny Raetihi in the Central North Island on Saturday. More >>
Old champ for new
Monday, 15 March 2010, 10:03 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It was a case of old champ for new as World champion shearer Paul Avery turned the tables on new shearing golden boy Cam Ferguson in the first competition after Ferguson's triumph at the 50th Golden Shears. More >>
Fourth Shearing Title For Joanne Kumeroa
Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 10:50 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Bowing out, Joanne Kumeroa in the last stages of the Golden Shears New Zealand team World Championships qualifying trial in Masterton, where her third placing ended her hopes of making the two-strong team for this year’s championships in Wales. ... More >>
Young guns take the spoils as vets look-on
Monday, 8 March 2010, 9:53 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Nostalgia meant nothing to a new wave of youngsters who scooped most of the major spoils watched by a host of former champions as the 50th Golden Shears ended in Masterton on Saturday. More >>
New Open Champion For Golden Shears
Sunday, 7 March 2010, 1:07 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
THE GOLDEN Shears has a brand new open shearing champion with young Waipawa shearer Cam Ferguson winning the title ahead of a prestigious line up of five of the world’s most elite in the field. More >>
First Timer Ferguson Wins Golden Shears
Sunday, 7 March 2010, 12:39 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Central Hawke's Bay shearer Cam Ferguson became the youngest Golden Shears open shearing champion in 21 years when he won a spectacular final at his first attempt in Masterton tonight. More >>
Kiwis Handle Ockers Again In Wool Test
Saturday, 6 March 2010, 12:41 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The New Zealand woolhandling kept up a proud record in tests against Australia with a crushing victory at the 50th Golden Shears in Masterton tonight. It was New Zealand's ninth win in a row in transtasman woolhandling tests, since the last defeat in Millicent, ... More >>
Fagan Goes For The Double
Saturday, 6 March 2010, 12:17 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing icon David Fagan has cleared the first hurdle in lining-up another double in the two major events at the 50th Golden Shears in Masterton by heading the qualifiers for the final of the country's premier all-wools event, PGG Wrightson National. More >>
Fagan Goes For The Double
Saturday, 6 March 2010, 12:16 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing icon David Fagan has cleared the first hurdle in lining-up another double in the two major events at the 50th Golden Shears in Masterton by heading the qualifiers for the final of the country's premier all-wools event, PGG Wrightson National. More >>
Veteran hangs up his shears
Friday, 5 March 2010, 2:15 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The sole surviving shearer from the first Golden Shear open final in 1961 was back on the board in Masterton today almost as happy to finish as he was to start on his big night 50 years ago. More >>
Golden Shears Update
Friday, 5 March 2010, 2:12 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
WE’RE passed the half way mark at this year’s Golden Shears but while last night’s 50^th anniversary dinner offered a little respite from the rigors of competition, tension levels are well on the way up for the big events yet to come. More >>
A Name to Watch
Friday, 5 March 2010, 9:45 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
HE ONLY shore his first sheep a couple of years ago but it looks like Gisborne teenager Wi Poutu Ngarangione is well on his way to breathing down the necks of shearing’s greats. More >>
Money on King for Golden Shears
Friday, 5 March 2010, 9:42 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The TAB has been forced to slash the odds on Napier shearer Dion King to win his second Golden Shears open title after a surge in betting support since the weekend. More >>
Golden Shears Day 2
Friday, 5 March 2010, 9:34 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Prolific young Gisborne shearer Wi Poutu Ngarangione stayed in the hunt to win his most important title at the Golden shears when he made his way through the intermediate semi-finals at the 50th anniversary championships in Masterton today. More >>
Young gun targets hometown gold
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 9:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A 13-year-old schoolboy could become the Golden Shears' youngest ever winner and provide a home-town triumph when the 50th anniversary of the World's most famous shearing and woolhandling championships start in Masterton on Wednesday. More >>
