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Champions' Shakedown Before World Shears
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 8:06 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand shearer Rowland Smith has had a confidence-boosting win over reigning World champion Welsh shearer Richard Jones in the last competition before the 2023 Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships. The win came on Sunday ... More >>
Kiwi Shears Guns On Show Before World Champs
Sunday, 11 June 2023, 9:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand shearers Rowland Smith and Leon Samuels have made a spectacular start to their preparations in the UK for next week’s Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhamdling Championships in Scotland. They were first and third respectively in ... More >>
NZ Shearers' Back-breaking Day Of Records In WA Woolshed
Sunday, 23 April 2023, 5:26 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Australia-based Taumarunui shearers and brothers Floyde Neil (left) and Levi Neil (right) pictured during their record-breaking day on Saturday at Rockliffe, about 280km south-southeast of Perth. Photo / Taesa Brown. The back wasn’t the best, ... More >>
Record Bid On Saturday For Kiwi Bros In West Australia
Friday, 21 April 2023, 6:59 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Taumarunui brothers and shearers Floyde (left) and Levi Neil in the Rockliffe woolshed south of Kojonup on Friday, ahead of the Saturday 5am start of their World merino ewes record bid. Photo / Supplied A New Zealand shearer tackling a World ... More >>
Samuels Wraps-up Season With Lambs Win - Next Stop, Scotland
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 10:51 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearer Leon Samuels capped his biggest season with victory in the national lambshearing championships Open final at the Mackenzie Shears in Fairlie on Monday. The win in the last event of the 2022-2023 Shearing Sports New Zealand season, by ... More >>
RESULTS from the NZ Shears shearing & woolhandling championships at Te Kuiti on Thursday-Saturday, March 30-April 1
Sunday, 2 April 2023, 4:06 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing: Wools of New Zealand Series (20 sheep): New Zealand (Rowland Smith 16min 6.41sec, 57.171pts, 1; Leon Samuels 15min 39.77sec, 57.239pts) 114.41pts beat Wales Development Gethin Lewis 15min 40.65sec, 61.283pts; Dylan Jones 16min 20.47sec, 67.474pts) ... More >>
Big win for Gore shearer Emma Martin at Shears champs in Te Kuiti
Friday, 31 March 2023, 7:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A Southland shearer today became the first female to win the New Zealand Shears Junior shearing championship in Te Kuiti in 13 years since what has become one of the more memorable of Junior shearing wins – because of who won it. The 27-year-old ... More >>
Woolhandlers Take The Honours On First Day Of New Zealand Shears
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 9:53 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two woolhandlers from different ends of the competition spectrum claimed the first titles at the New Zealand Shears in Te Kuiti today(Thursday). Cat Christey, who calls herself a general hand who does-all sorts on a farm near Waitomo, has barely competed ... More >>
Women's Shears Event Attracts 15
Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 2:13 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
At least 15 shearers from across the competition grades of Open to Junior will contest the women’s shearing event at the New Zealand Shears which open in Te Kuiti tomorrow(Thursday) and end on Saturday. But while the field comprises most of those who have shorn successfully ... More >>
Smith's Challengers Line Up For New Zealand Shears Bid
Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 4:51 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Champion shearer Rowland Smith will go out favourite to complete a Golden Shears and New Zealand Shears Open championships double for an 8th time in Te Kuiti this week. But, having secured the first of two New Zealand World Championships machine ... More >>
Moore Dominates Home Shearing At Local Show
Monday, 27 March 2023, 10:08 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
National Shearing Circuit champion Angus Moore proved too good for the opposition in possibly his last competition of the year when he won the Open final at his home Flaxbourne A and P Show in Ward on Sunday. In a rare contest over 10 corriedale lambs ... More >>
Moore Sorts Out The Priorities
Friday, 24 March 2023, 1:36 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New, three-times national shearing circuit champion and Golden Shears Open runner-up Angus Moore will have possibly his last competition of the season at home show in Marlbotough on Sunday, giving-up what was once an ambition to represent New Zealand ... More >>
The Real Neil Deal Shearing Record Bid For Kiwi Brothers
Thursday, 23 March 2023, 8:51 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two brothers from Taumarunui are out to get their names into the World Sheep Shearing Record books together in in West Australia next month. From Taumarunui but based in Boyup Brook, West Australia, Floyde Neil, 30, and brother Levi, 28, sons of Roger ... More >>
Just Down The Road – Henderson Wins Again
Sunday, 19 March 2023, 7:08 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Northland shearer shearer Toa Henderson again kept it close to home after a season of some of the longest trips in New Zealand shearing competition when he won the Warkworth A and P Lifestyle Show’s Open final in an obligingly sunny north on Saturday. ... More >>
Bring On The Twilight Years – McSkimming Wins At Methven
Sunday, 19 March 2023, 7:07 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Success comes to those who wait, even for a shearer who’s just won his first Open final and reckons that at the age of 40 he’s in his twilight. But the years of concentrating on a contracting run in the North Island before returning to the south ... More >>
Kiwi’s Shearing Gun’s Man In The Pen Is A Welshman
Sunday, 19 March 2023, 7:05 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It was almost as close as could be got to the spirit of international co-operations as the Welsh Development and New Zealand teams prepared on Saturday for the first of three matches in the Wools of New Zealand In ternational Shearing Series. In the ... More >>
A Shearing Weekend - South, North, And The Rural Games
Monday, 13 March 2023, 5:20 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Reigning World champion blade shearer Allan Oldfield moved a step closer to defending his title this year when he won the sixth round of the eight-show Mark Marshall Memorial Blades Circuit at the Mayfield A and P Show Shears in Mid-Canterbury on Saturday. ... More >>
Wrap And Full Results From The 2023 Golden Shears International Shearing Championships
Sunday, 5 March 2023, 5:40 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
March 4, 2023 The eighth win for Rowland Smith - still the dream Champion shearer Rowland Smith achieved the goal he’d set all season when he won an eighth Golden Shears Open shearing title in Masterton tonight. Capping three days of a fever-pitched ... More >>
Big Win For Australian Fleecos In Wool Test Match
Saturday, 4 March 2023, 8:58 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Australian woolhandling team has beaten the odds to end a New Zealand transtasman series winning streak on the Kiwis’ home tables at the Golden Shears international shearing championships in Masterton. The two countries went into Friday night’s ... More >>
A Goldies Ribbon A A Nurse's Day Off
Friday, 3 March 2023, 11:06 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It can be said that Eleri Bradley’s family are into the shearing sports hard-core. Twin brother Tegwyn won the Golden Shears Intermediate and Senior shearing titles, sister Laura is in the books as Novice woolhandling champion in 2020, and mum Helen ... More >>
