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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 >>
On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand
Friday, 18 December 2009, 12:10 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Scottish shearer and Taranaki farmer Gavin Mutch is about now starting the second run of a World lambshearing record bid with the odds against him after falling after falling five shport log of the opening two-hour target in a woolshed east of Stratford. More >>
First win in eight years for the big man
Monday, 30 November 2009, 11:16 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing has seen one of its more popular wins with Wanganui gun Jerome McCrea beating World champion Paul Avery on the champion's home stage in Stratford. A serious knee injury once had 35-year-old McCrea thinking his shearing was over for good, and he ... More >>
Shearing Sports: Avery completes Tasman double
Monday, 23 November 2009, 10:18 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World champion shearer Paul Avery completed a Tasman double when he won the Nelson A and P open shearing title on Saturday. More >>
Top Guns Go South to Bolster Nelson Show
Friday, 20 November 2009, 10:30 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
At least two of the finalists from this year's Golden Shears open championship are expected to compete in the Nelson A and P Show Shears tomorrow [Saturday], giving a much welcome boost to the event. World champion and two-times Golden Shears champion ... More >>
Shearing Sports NZ: Big Gap, But Still Close
Monday, 16 November 2009, 12:35 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A New Zealand team has scored a second big win over Australia in blade-shearing, but the result barely matters as the transtasman rivals prepare to tackle the sport's African might at next year's World Championships in Wales. After the Kiwis' win in ... More >>
Cam shafts top guns again
Monday, 16 November 2009, 12:28 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Emerging young Waipawa shearing hope Cam Ferguson scored possibly his most satisfying open win by beating World champions Paul Avery and John Kirkpatrick in a 15-sheep final at his home Central Hawke's Bay Shears in Waipukurau on Saturday. More >>
Masterton Teen Wins Australian Shearing Title
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 1:50 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Masterton teenager Matene Mason has returned home triumphant after scoring a major and surprise victory in Australia at the weekend. The No 2 ranked intermediate shearer in New Zealand last season, and winner of the New Zealand intermediate title in Te ... More >>
Gifted Education is the winner on the day
Monday, 2 November 2009, 10:28 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Primary and Intermediate school students flocked to Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium this afternoon to witness New Zealand’s largest game of Scrabble on a board over 16m squared. More >>
Cummings wins North Canty Shears
Monday, 26 October 2009, 4:04 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
South Canterbury shearer Eli Cummings was really going places when he scored a rare open competition win with a surprise victory over PGG Wrightson National champion Tony Coster at the Northern Canterbury Shears in Rangiora on Saturday. Less than ... More >>
It's all for the cameraderie says Fagan
Sunday, 25 October 2009, 12:45 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The thrills of competition shearing remain as constant as ever for 48-year-old shearing icon David Fagan who on Friday(October 23) won the Great Raihania Shears open title in Hastings, his first win in the 28th season of a career which has produced 593 ... More >>
Rain puts hold on shear team reunion
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 9:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Wet weather in Taranaki seems almost certain to stop World champion shearer Paul Avery making his new season's debut in Hastings on Friday at what would otherwise have been the first gathering of New Zealand's four World shearing and woolhandling ... More >>
School Teacher Shows Class in Wool Contest
Monday, 19 October 2009, 10:14 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Country school principal Sheree Alabaster made a confident start in her bid to defend her World woolhandling title by beating a high-quality field at her first competition of the season in Gisborne on Saturday. The Taihape sportswoman went into the show ... More >>
Woolhandlers rock those Aussies - again!
Monday, 12 October 2009, 4:20 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand's dominance of transtasman woolhandling continued with an eighth consecutive test win in the annual home and away series during the Australian National shearing and woolhandling championships in the tiny Northwest New South Wales town of Warialda ... More >>
Southern hope taken-out by northern raider
Monday, 12 October 2009, 9:47 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A Southland shearer's hopes of taking an unprecedented third successive win in three shows at the start of the new Shearing Sports New Zealand season came to grief when northern raider Cam Ferguson caused a boilover in the New Zealand Spring Shearing ... More >>
Southern hope taken-out by northern raider
Monday, 12 October 2009, 9:33 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A Southland shearer's hopes of taking an unprecedented third successive win in three shows at the start of the new Shearing Sports New Zealand season came to grief when northern raider Cam Ferguson caused a boilover in the New Zealand Spring Shearing ... More >>
Rain is a Pain at NZ Spring Shears
Friday, 9 October 2009, 3:43 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Rain in South Canterbury was just a bit pof pain and a bit of extra work as organisers of the New Zealand Spring Shearing Championships prepared for their big event in Waimate this weekend. Organising committee president Warren White said more than ... More >>
