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Haig Blows A Few Cobwebs Out, And Wins First Open Title In 26 Years
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 10:52 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Taumarunui farm stock manager Miri Haig went 26 years almost completely out of the woolhandling scene but showed she hadn’t lost the touch when she won the Waitangi Day Sports Open final near the isolated King Country township of Aria on Tuesday. ... More >>
Toa Henderson: Northland Shearing Gun In The Fast Lane
Sunday, 4 February 2024, 3:09 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Northland shearer Toa Henderson again spread-eagled the opposition to shear a 20-sheep final in under 16 minutes for the third time in a week when he won the North Island Open Shearing Championship final at the 60th Rangitikei Shearing Sports in Marton ... More >>
The Rowly Show Starts Rolling Again
Saturday, 3 February 2024, 7:12 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Champion Hawke’s Bay shearer Rowland Smith heralded his return to competition by winning the Dannevirke A and P Show Open final on Friday. Smith hadn’t competed since returning from the 2023 World championships, held in Scotland last June, leaving ... More >>
Cool Operator - Emergency Nurese On To A Winner, At Shearing
Sunday, 28 January 2024, 9:45 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A 22-year-old emergency department nurse who sheared sheep mainly to pay her way through her studies is continuing to claim winning ribbons in a continuing drive to help keep shearing competitions going in the top of the south. The latest success ... More >>
It Was A Huge Weekend For Shearing Sports In New Zealand, With Six Shows In Three Days
Monday, 22 January 2024, 5:49 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two wins in two days - 1000km apart Masterton shearer Paerata Abraham had scored just three show-shearing Open final wins in more than a decade of trying until he won two titles at the weekend – 24 hours and over 1000km apart. On Saturday he ... More >>
Shearing Record Update
Friday, 19 January 2024, 9:38 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Record shearing hopefuls Hemi Braddick, Flynn Harvey and Ray Kinsman are well ahead of the target pace chasing a new World mark for strongwool ewes in eight hours on what promises to be an excrutiatingly hot day in a Southern Hawke’s Bay woolshed. ... More >>
Six Shearing Competitions This Weekend
Thursday, 18 January 2024, 9:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
An array of New Zealand fullwool and lambshearing titles will be at stake in the biggest weekend of shearing sports competition this summer. Six one-day shows – a tenth of all competitions on the Shearing Sports New Zealand calendar – will ... More >>
Three-stand Shearing Record Bid Near Dannevirke On Friday
Tuesday, 16 January 2024, 9:57 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Three shearers working throughout the Tararua District of Southern Hawke’s Bay and Northern Wairarapa are in the latter stages of preparation for their bid for a World record this week. Eketahuna shearer Hemi Braddick, who when finally winning ... More >>
Record Smashed In Five Shearers' Big Day Out In Southland
Sunday, 14 January 2024, 8:06 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Five shearers new to attempting shearing records and comparatively unknown in the competition World have smashed a World record by 326 lambs in Southland today. The Forde Winders Shearing crew of Trevor Holland, of New Plymouth, Max Winders, of Colac ... More >>
One Of Records Shearing's Most Stunning Days - A Women's Record Smashed
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 5:15 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
One of New Zealand’s most successful female competition shearers has smashed a World shearing record by almost 10 sheep an hour. Shearing today (Wednesday) at Nukuhakari Station, in coastal King Country in one of records-shearing's most stunning displays, ... More >>
Shearing Record Update 3.40pm
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 3:33 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A World shearing record that stood for just three days has been broken this afternoon in a coastal King Country woolshed. Catherine Mullooly, from Matawai, Gisborne, passed the target of 386 about 3.40pm and will shear on to the scheduled finish at 5pm, ... More >>
Shearing Record Update
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 1:39 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Sheep shearer Catherine Mullooly is continuing her relentless run towards smashing a World eight-hours eweshearing record with the possibility she may even do more than the current record for nine hours. In the first hour after lunch in the record ... More >>
Ewes Flash - Shearing Record Update Run 2, Lunch
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 11:44 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Catherine Mullooly has reached the lunchtime halfway stage with a tall of 233 in quest for the World women's solo eight-hour eweshearing record at Nukuhakaro Station west of Te Kuiti. She shearered 116 in the first two hours from 7am-9am and 117 from ... More >>
Stunning Start For New Shearing Record Bid
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 11:08 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World shearing record challenger Catherine Mullooly is well ahead of the required pace in her bid for a new solo women’s eight-hour ewes record at coastal sheep and beef station Nukuhakari, west of Te Kuiti. Ending the first two hours and heading ... More >>
Shearing Record A Struggle But On Target
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 11:07 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A shearing record set just three days ago looks to be under some threat today despite the early struggle challenger Catherine Mullooly is experiencing in a remote North Island west coast woolshed. Starting at 7am at Nukuhakari Station, west of Te Kuiti, ... More >>
On Show: Shearing Competitions Resume
Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 2:34 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Wairoa A and P Shears in a woolshed northwest of Wairoa in 2020. With Cyclone Gabrielle having left long-lasting damage at the town's showgrounds, this year'd shearing championships are also being nheld in a farm woolshed, the third time the ... More >>
New Shearing Record Beckons For Women's Shearing Champion
Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 9:49 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A 34-year-old mum already with an historic background on the shearing board will on Wednesday turn her hand to challenging a World record bid less than three days old. Catherine Mullooly, from Matawai, Gisborne, will be trying to break the Women’s ... More >>
Gut-busting Record Day For Shearer Amy Silcock
Monday, 8 January 2024, 7:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
386 ewes, 25 tonnes of sheep, 1.35 tonnes of wool Farmer-turned shearer Amy Silcock smashed a World record near Pahiatua today, but the elation was still dimmed by the couple that got way. Shearing under the watch of four World Sheep Shearing Record ... More >>
Sunday Shearing Record Bid
Thursday, 4 January 2024, 4:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Ewe-shearing record hopeful Amy Silcock started shearing because she wanted to see the World and didn’t want to be ”one of those people who gets to 40 and has never done it.” That was when she was 28 and farming, but, now 37, it’s much more than ... More >>
A Tough Day At The Office In A Wairarapa Woolshed
Sunday, 24 December 2023, 1:49 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Masterton shearers Paerata Abraham and Chris Dickson have fallen 20 short of their target in a bid for the World two-stand eight-hours strongwool lambshearing record. But it was a case of if-only for the pair who sheared more than the record of 1410 ... More >>
