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Kiwi shears team goes to Australia
Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 4:19 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The slowly dying art and culture of blade shearing in New Zealand has been given a fillip with the departure of two of it's less than 100 exponents for Australia today to join the national sheraring and woolhandling teams for the first leg of ... More >>
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Friday, 2 October 2009, 11:52 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
If training makes a champion then shearing icon David Fagan seems to be defying all odds as he opens his 28th open-class season at the national finewool merino championships in Alexandra tomorrow (Friday).. More >>
Prodigy beats the master as big shears season open
Monday, 28 September 2009, 12:25 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Gisborne teenager Joel Henare had to overcome mentor, idol and former three times World champion Joanne Kumeroa to retain his Waitaki McKenzie Merino Shears open woolhandling title as a new Shearing Sports New Zealand season started in Omarama on Saturday. More >>
Kiwi shearers save best for Welsh swansong
Monday, 27 July 2009, 9:06 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand shearers have completed the Kiwi team's UK tour in triumphant fashion with a series-levelling test victory, a trifecta in a major open championship and a senior final quinella at the Cneifio Corwen Shears in Northeast Wales. More >>
Shear tests go to wire in Wales
Friday, 24 July 2009, 9:58 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The New Zealand shearing team is faced with a must-win situation in ending its eight-test tour of Britain after losing the latest test at the Royal Welsh Show in Builth Wells. More >>
Fagan wins – again
Friday, 17 July 2009, 9:46 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Ageless Kiwi shearing champion David Fagan has won for the second time in two countries in two days as he begins to dominate the exploits of New Zealand shearers in Britain. More >>
Fagan king of the castle in Ireland
Thursday, 16 July 2009, 10:14 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Veteran New Zealand shearer David Fagan showed there's still plenty of class and speed in his 47-year-old frame with two wins within a few hours at an historic castle in Northern Ireland today. More >>
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 9:31 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Veteran New Zealand shearer David Fagan has moved a step closer to his 600th win in more than a quarter-century of open class competition by taking the Glenarm title in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. More >>
Shearers win
Monday, 13 July 2009, 8:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The New Zealand shearing team has bounced to winning form on a three-nations tour of Britain with victory over England. The win by James Fagan and John Kirkpatrick, over a new English team of Adam Berry and Mark Fox, at the Lakelands Shears on Saturday ... More >>
Kiwi shearers up and running in U.K.
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 9:34 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand shearing champion John Kirkpatrick is expected to start a favourite to win the Royal Highland championships in Edinburgh this weekend after getting a United Kingdom tour off to a good start with victory in the South of Scotland championships. More >>
World champ Avery takes final shears showdown
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 10:53 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World shearing champion Paul Avery finished the 2008-2009 season in winning style by taking the Northern Shears open title at the Royal Easter Show in Auyckland. More >>
Southern Hopeful Eliminated From Shearing Champs
Friday, 3 April 2009, 6:38 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southern Hopeful Eliminated From Shearing Champs Southern national championships shearing hopeful Nathan Stratford was a notable deletion from the New Zealand open shearing championships after being eliminated in the heats in Te Kuiti today. More >>
Dion King Turns The Tables In Shearing Champs
Friday, 3 April 2009, 9:21 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Dion King Turns The Tables In Shearing Champs World lamb shearing tally record holder and Hawke's Bay Dion King turned the tables on hometown hero and Golden Shears champion David Fagan to win a one-sheep speedshear and a $2000 prize for barely a minute's ... More >>
Prime Minister Challenged To Take Up Shears
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 2:00 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Prime Minister John Key is being put on the spot at the New Zealand Shearing Championships which open in Te Kuiti today (thursday), with an invitation to do his bit for the struggling wool industry by shearing at least part of a sheep. More >>
Welsh pair share shear delight on historic NZ tour
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 9:16 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A Welsh shearing team soundly beaten in the first two tests of a gound-breaking New Zealand tour is hoping to make-up some lost ground in the second half of the series after an historic first win over a New Zealand Development team in the Central North ... More >>
Sports award for woolhandling champ
Monday, 23 March 2009, 4:06 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World woolhandling champion and country school principal Sheree Alabaster got over a lack of winning form since returning from last October's triumph in Norway and a tough week at work by claiming the Wanganui Sportsperson of the Year Award during ... More >>
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Sunday, 15 March 2009, 11:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Kaikoura MP Colin King has shown he is still a deft and with the left hand by winning a shearing competition in Canterbury. More >>
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Friday, 13 March 2009, 9:17 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand's top shearers are wasting no time getting back into action again by taking to another weekend of shear excitement just a week after a dramatic finsih to the Golden Shears in Masterton. More >>
Golden Shears - TAB Odds
Wednesday, 4 March 2009, 5:27 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
In-form Hawke's Bay shearer John Kirkpatrick has been made a hot-favourite to win his third Golden Shears open title, in the TAB odds announced today on the eve of the start of the 49th international shearing and woolhandling championships in Masterton. More >>
Golden Shears Prelude
Monday, 2 March 2009, 10:26 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Te Kuiti veteran Dean Ball loomed into Golden Shears calculations when he beat a star-studded field in the Pahiatua Shears today. It was his third win in an open final this season, and among the vanquished were hot-running John Kirkpatrick and ... More >>
