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Shearing Record Attempt Gets The Green Light
Sunday, 19 January 2025, 8:04 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Under World Sheep Shearing Society rules the lambs must have an average wool weight of 0.9kg each, as determined by a sample shear of 20 from the target flock on the day beforehand. More >>
World Shearing Record Attempt In Hawke's Bay
Friday, 17 January 2025, 2:02 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Bay of Plenty shearer and former professional squash hopeful Jamie Skiffington is looking well primed for a solo World nine-hour strongwool lambs record attempt in which he will need to average about half-a-minute per lamb. More >>
Shearing It Around - The Busiest Week Of The Season From North To South
Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 2:56 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing Sports New Zealand Southland-Otago delegate Michael Hogan says there will be particular interest from the Open-class competitors, who next month start protracted shearing and woolhandling series’ to decide the New Zealand team members for the ... More >>
Family's Double Shear Delight - My Name Is Meikle, And So Is His
Monday, 13 January 2025, 5:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The lineup after the Peinisula Ducauchelle Open shearing at the Duvauchelle A and P Show on Banks Peinsula on Saturday. From left winner Justin Meikle, runner-up Ant Frew, third-placed Alex Smith, Blake Crooks (fourth), Grant Smith (fifth) and Shaun ... More >>
Shearing Them Around: 11 Shearing Records In 2024
Tuesday, 24 December 2024, 9:33 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A record year of World sheep shearing records has ended with Australian shearer Nicki Guttler’s breaking of a new mark that had been in place just 35 days. Guttler, who was third in a women’s event at the Golden Shears in Masterton in March, shore ... More >>
Te Whiringa - The First Senior Shearing Circuit In More Than A Decade
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 9:09 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Te Whiringa Senior Shearing Circuit has been developed by the Waimarino Shears committee, and will be contested over 10 rounds and a final, at the committe's annual competition in Raetihi. More >>
Supafly And Fellow Flyers Tackle Shearing Record
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 7:32 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A speedshear king who commonly shears sheep at under 25 seconds each in competition is now looking for a bit of moderation as he joins two long-time shearing mates to tackle a World record in a Manawatu-Whanganui woolshed tomorrow (Wednesday). Jimmy ... More >>
Welsh-Kiwi Combo Falls In Shot Oin World Sheep Shearing Record Bid
Sunday, 15 December 2024, 10:00 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
An attempt will be made on the three-stand strongwool lambs record for eight hours near Hunteville on December 18, and Skiffington’s nine-hours attempt will take place near Dannevirke on January 20. More >>
A Boost For Show Shearing In The North
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 10:54 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A new step to boost shearing competition entries in the Northland shows has proven to be an early success with more than 30 competitors shearing at the Whangarei A and P Show on Saturday. The 36 entries, from 31 shearers, including veterans, were ... More >>
Welsh And Kiwi Shearers Team Up For World Record Bid
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 10:52 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
At stake is the World two-stand, eight-hours strongwool lambs record of 1410 set on January 4, 2023 by Simon Goss and Jamie Skiffington in the Goss family’s Mangamahu Valley woolshed northeast of Whanganui. More >>
New Shears Event For Young Shearers In Northland
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 10:47 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Novice, Junior and Intermediate shearers will compete in a single event based on handicap, with a first prize of $500, $250 for second and money down to fifth place. More >>
A Thousand Kilometres For A Shearing Win
Sunday, 1 December 2024, 4:15 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand’s top-ranked Open shearer last season has made a successful one-day 1000km round trip from Northland to launch a new campaign at the Taranaki Shears. Toa Henderson left home in Kaiwaka, near Whangarei, at 5am on Saturday, arrived at ... More >>
Wins For National Champs, At Tapanui And Nelson
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 10:03 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The red ribbons went to Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford, who has now won the West Otago A and P Show’s Open final at Tapanui 16 times in 23 years, and Marlborough gun Angus Moore, who won the Nelson A and P Show Open title for a fifth time in eight ... More >>
National Corriedale Shearing Champs
Monday, 11 November 2024, 8:24 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Competition organisers say that while online entries have closed, entries will be taken up to “on the day". “Just buy your gate pass and enter here at the Lister Shearing and Woolhandling Stadium on the day.” More >>
Kirkpatricks In Charge At Wairarapa Spring Shears
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 6:23 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Just as they had at the Gisborne Shears which kicked-off the competition season at Poverty Bay A and P Show on Oct 18, Master Shearer John Kirkpatrick won Open shearing final, crew Bruce Grace, won the Senior final, and Jodiesha Kirkpatrick won both ... More >>
Flying Roberts Wins Shears In Ashburton, And Leaves For Aussie
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 4:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Crossing the Tasman he will miss such events as next weekend’s Get to the Point Pleasant Point Shears and the November 14-15 Canterbury Shears New Zealand Corriedale Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Christchurch. More >>
Mutch Holds It Together For Great Raihania Shears Win
Monday, 28 October 2024, 1:32 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Laura Bradley, of Papatawa, also in Southern Hawke’s Bay, moved a step closer to becoming the first female to be promoted to Open class based on wins in Senior competition when she won the Senior final over eight sheep each. More >>
Blades Shearers Hold Up The Kiwis' End In Transtasman Tests
Monday, 28 October 2024, 1:25 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand’s one win came in the blades shearing test of two merinos and two crossbred sheep each, with Tony Dobbs, of Fairlie, and Tim Hogg, of Timaru, beating Australians Johnathon Dalla (S.A.) and Andrew Murray (NSW) by 3.5pts. More >>
Familiar Faces Claim The Red Ribbons At Gisborne Show Shears
Monday, 28 October 2024, 11:56 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Having undergone significant shoulder surgery last summer, but back shearing by the end of the season, Kirkpatrick was claiming his first win since being made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum More >>
Kiwis Chase Elusive Shears Cleansweep In Australia
Monday, 28 October 2024, 11:41 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The internationals will take place during the Australian National Shearing and Woolhandling Championships which start on Friday in Katanning, about 280km southeast of Perth, and end on Sunday. More >>
