http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.shearingsports.co.nz en-us Wed, 20 May 2026 16:55:13 +1200 Rocketspark http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/post/17345/World-Champs-major-earner-for-region/ The 2017 World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships, held in Invercargill in February, was widely heralded as the best event in the competition's 40-year history. Now, independent analysis has backed that up, revealing a $6.78 million to $7.48 million economic impact to the Southland economy. The economic impact report, commissioned by the event and undertaken by Venture Southland, has revealed that international visitors to New Zealand for the event stayed an average of 31.3 days in New ... Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:42:57 +1200 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/#post17345 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/post/16099/Smith-shines-at-Golden-Shears/ Northland-raised Hawke's Bay shearer Rowland Smith has tonight completed an amazing reply to his omission from the New Zealand World Championships team with a clean-sweep of the major events on the final night of the 57th Golden Shears in Masterton The 30-year-old 2014 World champion was the man of the night as he won his fourth Golden Shears Open title, his first PGG Wrightson National Championship all-breeds title and led New Zealand to victory over Australia in a Trans-Tasman test, the first... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 22:58:22 +1300 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/#post16099 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/post/16098/Full-Golden-Shears-Results/ RESULTS from the 57th Golden Shears Shearing and Woolhandliung Championships in Masterton, NZ, on March 2-4, 2017: International: Lister Shearing Transtasman Shearing Test (12 sheep – 6 merinos, 3 long wools, 3 lambs): New Zealand 225.3534pts (R owland Smith 17min 45.072sec, 73.67pts; Nathan Stratford 18min 1.987sec, 75.016pts; Tony Coster 17min 50.029sec, 76.667pts) beat Australia 237.969pts (Jason Wingfield 15min 51.416sec, 75.071pts; Shannon Warnest 16min 58.816sec, 78.357pts; Daniel McInt... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 22:44:49 +1300 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/#post16098 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/post/16097/Puha-takes-second-Golden-Shears-title/ Manawatu teenager Connor Puha has won his second Golden Shears title in a controversial aftermath to the Intermediate shearing final in Masterton today. The 18-year-old Puha, who won the Novice final in 2014 and fourth in the Junior final in both 2015 and last year, was initially placed third in the presentation after today's final, when the winning ribbon was presented to Winton shearer Brandon Maguire Ratima. A mistake in the information on which calculations was based was noticed almost imm... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 22:39:57 +1300 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/#post16097 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/post/16095/Shearer-Stevens-wins-Woolhandling/ It wasn't so much the title he wanted but it'll do for Napier shearer Ricci Stevens after he won the Junior woolhandling title at the 57th Golden Shears in Masterton today. The New Zealand Junior shearing champion in 2015, a Golden Shears Intermediate finalist last year and a consistent performer in his first season of Senior shearing, Stevens had been among the favourites for the Golden Shears Senior championship but was eliminated in its heats. Showing versatility across the skills of the wo... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 19:54:08 +1300 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/#post16095 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/post/16092/South-Island-hope-for-Golden-Shears-finals/ Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford has loomed as a big hope of claiming the South Island's first win in the Golden Shears Open final for the first time in 28 years. Stratford was the top qualifier in this afternoon's semi-finals, combining both quality and speed to possibly the best effect in his 20-year Open-class career in which the biggest highlight came only last month when he and Napier shearer John Kirkpatrick won the World teams title in ILT Stadium Southland. Known usually to rely o... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:42:21 +1300 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/#post16092 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/post/16091/Dream-comes-true-for-Alexander/ It was a bit more than a dream come true for Taranaki shearer Darren Alexander as he won the Golden Shears Senior shearing title, emulating the win by father Lloyd Alexander in 1988. At one stage headed for a climb-up to the Open-class, in which his father also shore a Golden Shears final, the 23-year-old, Alexander held back still a couple of wins short of automatic promotion to shear one more season in the class. But he came to wonder if his last throw of the dice might be good enough as the... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:35:19 +1300 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/#post16091 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/post/16090/Nine-years-worth-the-wait-for-McLean/ A bit of pining for home was behind the success of Taihape's Jamie McLean as she won her second Golden Shears woolhandling title in Masterton today. There were nine years between the two successes, the 2008 win in the Junior final and today's Senior victory. The 27-year-old McLean had in the meantime been living in the South Island working for Pleasant Point contractor and former top Open-class shearer Adrian Cox, until she turned home to the Central North Island for her late nan's unveiling i... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:29:54 +1300 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/#post16090 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/post/16089/Baty-earns-NZ-team-spot-with-North-Island-win/ The World champion New Zealand woolhandling team of Gisborne's Joel Henare and Mayryanne Baty has been kept intact for next season's Transtasman series after Baty's win today in the North Island Open woolhandling circuit final it the Golden Shears in Masterton. It was only the third individual win of her Open-class career, but the most important, ranking alongside the World Championships New Zealand team selection final second placing in November which led to the pair's success at the champions... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:23:27 +1300 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/#post16089 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/post/16087/Ferguson-wins-with-help-from-Ferguson/ Shearing at the Golden Shears was one of the last things on the mind of farmer Mark Ferguson as he started to the feel the grip of a tough Hawke's Bay summer a while before Christmas. But it all changed when he met former World and Golden Shears Open champion and Waipawa shearer Cam Ferguson (no relation), and this afternoon he became another Ferguson to don a winning ribbon at the Golden Shears by winning the Junior final, a father-of-two aged 43 with some of his opposition less than half his ... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:18:20 +1300 http://www.shearingsports.co.nz/blog/#post16087