North Canterbury shearer Blake Crooks showed all the grit of a champion when he drove close to 400km each way to compete at the Nelson A and P Show on Saturday. With three senior wins behind him this season, including last-start victory at the .
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 .