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Northland Shearers Battle The Odds
Monday, 30 January 2023, 3:28 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearers in the north have a big chance to get onto the buzz for the big shows with three successive weekends – weather willing. The North Kaipara A and P Show is this Saturday at Paparoa, Northern Wairoa is at Arapahoe, Dargaville, on February ... More >>
Defending The Title At Tapawera
Monday, 30 January 2023, 10:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Former Southland shearer Floyd Haare successfully defended the Tapawera Shears Open shearing title when the annual competition was held south of Nelson on Saturday. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2301/d04ae96003c233f5ea54.jpeg" ... More >>
Braving The Rain For Near-record Turnout At Taihape Shears
Sunday, 29 January 2023, 6:51 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Taihape’s famed gumboot throwing competition was cancelled but the shearing still went ahead in a classic day of making-it-happen amid torrential rain on Saturday. But the Taihape A and P Show’s 60th shearing and woolhandling championships – ... More >>
Tough Shearing Record Battle On Wairarapa Farm
Friday, 27 January 2023, 12:30 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Wairarapa shearer Amy Silcock is up against it this afternoon in her bid for the World women's nine-hopur strong wool ewe shearing record in a woolshed near Pahiatua. Targeting a record of 370 set in the UK last August, Silcock had shorn 171 at the ... More >>
Record Bid Ewe Wool Averages Almost 5kg A Fleece
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 8:00 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The stage is set for a Wairarapa shearer’s rare lower North Island attempt on a World women’s solo strongwool ewes record tomorrow (Friday). Amy Silcock, of Tiraumea, will be attempting the record for eight hours at ‘Ross Na Clonagh’, ... More >>
Something To Celebrate At Taihape Shears
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 1:36 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A small group of shearers is today crutching more than 1000 sheep near Taihape in preparation for the Saturday’s 60th Taihape A and P Show Shears, one of the biggest shearing and woolhandling competitions in New Zealand each year. About 150 shearers ... More >>
Two Big Days Of National Shears Titles In Southland
Sunday, 22 January 2023, 9:43 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Southland shearing fraternity had possibly its most successful day in competition with a near-cleansweep of the seven titles at the Northern Southland Community Shears’ New Zealand fullwool shearing and woolhandling championships on Friday. Opening a ... More >>
Close Calls In Duvauchelle Shearing Finals
Monday, 16 January 2023, 10:14 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
South Canterbury shearing contractor and Open-class shearer Ant Frew had his second win of the 2022-2023 shearing sports season with a narrow win over North Canterbury gun Hugh De Lacy at the Peninsula Duvauchelle Shears on Saturday. Taking a crew to ... More >>
Shearing Record Attempt In Remote Mangamahu Valley
Tuesday, 3 January 2023, 8:00 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Simon Goss winning a Senior shearing final at Marton in 2020. Tomorrow (Wednesday) he and Jamie Skiffington attempt to break a two-stand lambshearing record. Photo / SSNZ Another shearing record which has gone unchallenged for 20 years is being ... More >>
Record-breaker Reflects The Morning After
Friday, 23 December 2022, 12:10 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The morning after was “surprisingly good” today for shearer Jack Fagan after one of his toughest days of all – breaking a World record that had stood for just two days. Back home in Te Kuiti and reflecting on setting a new solo eight-hours ... More >>
Shearing Record Broken - Again
Thursday, 22 December 2022, 6:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
King Country shearer Jack Fagan, who trains to shear sheep in under 20 seconds in mainly-charity Speedshear events, has put it all together for eight hours to claim a World record today(Thursday). Fagan shore 754 to break a solo World eight-hours ... More >>
Jack Fagan On Target To Break Two-day-old Shearing Record
Thursday, 22 December 2022, 12:14 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan has got off to a lightning start in his bid to break the World solo eight hours strongwool lambshearing record which was set just two days ago. A quarter of the way into the attempt at Ingleby Farms Puktetiti Station, ... More >>
11 Out Of 10 For Pain Ration - 746 For A World Record
Wednesday, 21 December 2022, 6:08 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Taihape teenager Reuben Alabaster had to wait till the last minute to break a World shearing record which had gone unchallenged for almost 11 years. Now he faces the possibility that after shearing a new solo eight hours strongwool lambshearing mark ... More >>
Shearing Record Drama Unfolding In Stormy Central North Island
Tuesday, 20 December 2022, 5:41 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A teenager’s bid for a World shearing record today has come down to not only a battle of stamina but also the weather outside the woolshed in a remote pocket of the central North Island. The solo eight-hour strongwool lambs record bid at Te Pa ... More >>
Double-hit On Lambshearing Record
Monday, 19 December 2022, 5:39 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A shearing record which has gone unchallenged for more than a decade will be up for grabs twice in three days in the central North Island this week. The target is the eight-hours solo strongwool lambshearing record of 744, set by Irish shearer ... More >>
Kaiwaka Quinella At First Show In The North
Sunday, 4 December 2022, 6:41 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Jayden Mainland, winner of the Whangarei A and P senior shearing title on Saturday, his second win of the season, picked at in a Rangitikei Shearing Sports Senior final in Marton in 2021. PHOTO / SSNZ The lure of another competition, a taste of victory ... More >>
Shearer Hopes To Be At Whangarei Show - Weather Willing
Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 10:18 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Northland shearer Toa Henderson often travels a thousand kilometres or more to get to and from competitions, as he did when he won in Central Hawke’s Bay earlier this month and again last Saturday when he won in Stratford. But with the weather ... More >>
Shearing Records Flourish After Borders Reopen
Monday, 21 November 2022, 9:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Australia-based Taumarunui shearer Floyde Neil set a new World earlier this month but already faces a challenge, in a wave of shearing record bids after the reopening of borders. Neil, son of a record-breaking King Country shearer, set a solo eight-hours ... More >>
Northland Gun Hits The Road For Shearing Win In Central Hawke's Bay
Monday, 14 November 2022, 6:12 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Northland shearer Toa Henderson again sounded a warning he means business with a round-trip of 1400kms to win the Central Hawke’s Bay A and P Show’s Open shearing final on Saturday. It was just a 48-hour trip, leaving midday Friday from home in ... More >>
Win No 127 For Woolhandler Henare
Monday, 14 November 2022, 3:35 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Gore woolhandler Autum Hiri, pictured with one-year-old daughter Sadie after winning the Senior final at the New Zealand Corriedale Woolhandling Championships in Christchurch on Friday. It was her first win since a Junior victory at Alexandra in 2016. Photo ... More >>
