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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 >>
Shore To Rise - 10-year-old Shearer Wairua Edmonds
Thursday, 2 March 2023, 2:34 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A 10-year-old shearer added another layer to the multi-generational whanau involvement in the wool industry when he shore in the Novice Heats as the 2023 Golden Shears hot under way in Masterrton. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2303/26435c30a1c2ba8914d2.jpeg" ... More >>
Golden Shears: Back On The Road Again
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 11:58 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
More than 370 shearers, woolhandlers and woolpressers are gathering in Masterton for the three-day Golden Shears international championships starting tomorrow(Thursday). The championships, having grown from a core of shearing three Golden Shears titles ... More >>
A Big Week For Over 100 Woolhandlers
Tuesday, 28 February 2023, 1:42 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The biggest week in woolhandling kicks into action with the Wairarapa Pre-Shears Championships tomorrow (Wednesday) in a woolshed about 12km north of Masterton. The championships, at Massey Uiversity’s Riverside Farm, on Mikimiki Rd, just off State ... More >>
First Time Golden Shears Final Hopeful Has Two Big Weekend Wins
Monday, 27 February 2023, 12:44 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A Northland shearer is shaping as a serious contender to end the Golden Shears Open championshipwinning run of former Northland shearer Rowland Smith this week in Masterton. Toa Henderson, of Kaiwaka, scored his third win in three weeks over Hawke’s Bay-based ... More >>
First South Island Win For Northland Shearer Toa Henderson
Sunday, 12 February 2023, 8:46 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
If Northland shearer Toa Henderson hadn’t already signalled his presence as a challenger for the major shearing titles this summer he did so when he won the Otago Shears Open final on Saturday at Carterhope Estate woolshed, near Balclutha. From ... More >>
Busy Weekend For Shearing Sports - Five Shows Counted
Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 11:46 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
One of the busiest weekends on the Shearing Sports New Zealand calendar has ended with five cometitions throughout the country from Friday to Monday. The busiest, on a weekend which also included a World Shearing record in Southland and a major ... More >>
Sacha Bond's Lambs Record Bid Is On Today
Saturday, 4 February 2023, 7:46 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
King Country-based shearer Sacha Bond is on the way in a bid to set a new solo women’s World eight-hours lambshearing record after being given the green light by World Sheep Shearing Records Society judges on Friday, the eve of the Saturday 7am-5pm ... More >>
Dannevirke Kicks-off Big Weekend Of Shearing
Friday, 3 February 2023, 2:02 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Competition is now under way in another big weekend of shearing throughout New Zealand, kicked-off by the Dannevirke A and P Show Shears in Southern Hawke’s Bay. Competition in search of five shearing titles and four wool handling titles started at 8.30am, ... More >>
Too Mutch: Happy To Teach - Expected To Shear
Thursday, 2 February 2023, 10:07 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Expatriate Scotsman, former World shearing champion and Southern Hawke’s Bay farmer Gavin Mutch will miss his new home show tomorrow(Friday) but has still made it a good week, with a win in the US national “Professional” championship. Helping ... More >>
