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Odds Tighten On Fagan Shears Hopes
Sunday, 28 February 2010, 12:50 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The TAB has moved quickly to tighten the odds on veteran reigning Golden Shears champion David Fagan winning the title for a 17th time after his win over most of his leading challengers in the Taumarunui Jamboree final on Friday night. More >>
Fagan Win Heats Up Shears Race
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 2:20 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing icon and reigning Golden Shears champion David Fagan swept back into winning form again at the Taumarunui Jamboree tonight, just a week out from a bid for a 17th Golden Shears open title in Masterton. More >>
Hawke's Bay Guns Fire in Southern Shears
Sunday, 21 February 2010, 12:47 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Hawke's Bay shearers scored a second successive cleansweep of the top three placings in major South Island competitions in dominating two open class finals at the 45th Southern Shears in Gore last night (saturday) More >>
Southland prime stakes out northern raiders
Friday, 19 February 2010, 9:57 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
At 34 years of age, Southland shearer Nathan Stratford has alot of people telling him he's in his prime. More >>
Dean Ball Wins Second Shearing Title
Monday, 15 February 2010, 9:18 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Te Kuiti veteran Dean Ball won his second open-class shearing title in Bay of Plenty in three weeks when he beat World champion and Taranaki farmer Paul Avery in the Te Puke A and P show final on Saturday. More >>
Otago title stays in Hawke's Bay
Monday, 15 February 2010, 9:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Central Hawke's Bay shearer Cam Ferguson has made his strongest case for rolling the big veteran guns in the race for places at this year's World Championships year by winning the prestige Otago Championship open title in Balclutha. More >>
All out to shear the Grand Slam
Friday, 12 February 2010, 9:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
MEDIA RELEASE On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand February 11, 5.30pm. All out to shear the Grand Slam More than 200 shearers and woolhandlers are heading for the small Otago town of Balclutha for the start of an unofficial shearing Grand Slam ... More >>
Welsh keep smiling after defeat in shears opener
Monday, 8 February 2010, 9:55 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Welsh shearers Gareth Daniel and Gareth Evans were still smiling despite being beaten by West Coast father and son Sam and Jason Win on Saturday in the opening match of an eight-show, four-test New Zealand tour. More >>
Victory sweet for the homecoming King
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 9:15 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World lambshearing record holder and former Golden Shears champion Dion King scored his first win back in New Zealand after several months in Australia when he won the 20-sheep Agrodome Shears open final at the Rotorua A and P Show on Sunday. More >>
Small-town NZ set for shear test fever
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 9:09 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A six-strong Welsh shearing and woolhandling team is about to starts its preparations for this year's World Championships at home in Wales with a series of test matches and other events in New Zealand. More >>
Best shot yet to come for full-boar Ball
Monday, 25 January 2010, 11:16 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
King Country contractor and pig-hunter Dean Ball gave a big indication that he, too, will be giving it his best shot in the chase for a place in New Zealand's World Championship team when he won the open final at the Tauranga Show on Saturday. More >>
King Country shearer misses record by five
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 9:58 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
King Country shearer Stacey Te Huia has fallen just six sheep short of breaking the World eight-hour ewe-shearing record. More >>
Next Shearing Record Bid
Monday, 18 January 2010, 2:58 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The new World ewe-shearing record set by Far North shearer Matthew Smith on Friday is being challenged just four days later by a King Country gun aiming to get the record back in the family where it had once been for just over eight years. More >>
NZ Shearing Results
Monday, 18 January 2010, 2:57 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Three competitions were held throughouth the weekend as the Shearing Sports New Zealand season continued in Southland and Hawke's Bay.The events included two national title events in Southland on Friday and Saturday. More >>
Kirkpatrick Repeats Southern Double
Monday, 18 January 2010, 2:55 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Napier shearer John Kirkpatrick produced the most telling sign of who will head the race for places in New Zealand's World championships shearing team this year when he completed a repeat double of the national longwool ewes and lambshearing titles ... More >>
Matthew Smith launches himself into record book
Saturday, 16 January 2010, 1:38 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Far North shearer Matthew Smith today launched himself into the records book with a near perfect effort as he smashed the World eight-hour ewe-shearing record northwest of Napier. More >>
Ewes Record
Friday, 15 January 2010, 1:50 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Far North shearer Matthew Smith is well on the way to a new World ewe shearing record with 292 shorn at the halfway mark of eight hours in a remote shed northwest of Napier. More >>
Shear Luck Ahead For North Shearers
Friday, 15 January 2010, 10:50 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Six of the World's best shearers are making one of New Zealand shearing's longest trips today to compete in two major events in Southland, opening the way for some of the usual long-suffering also-rans of the North Island competitions to claim some ... More >>
Far North Shearer To Tackle Ewes Record
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 1:13 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Globetrotting Far North shearer Matthew Smith may have to battle a bit of a southerly challenge on Friday (Jan 15) in a bid to become the first person to set a World ewe shearing record in Hawke's Bay. More >>
On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 9:16 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The countdown to this year's World shearing championships begins in earnest for many top shearers as the Shearing Sports New Zealand season resumes with the national lambshearing championships at the Western Shears in Raglan on Saturday. More >>
