Jack Fagan claims second Rural Games speed shear title
14 Mar, 2021 11:00 PM
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Jack Fagan (left) pips event favourite Jimmy Samuels to successfully defend the Rural Games speed shearing title in Palmerston North. Photo / SSNZ
Jack Fagan (left) pips event favourite Jimmy Samuels to successfully defend the Rural Games speed shearing title in Palmerston North. Photo / SSNZ
The Country
All roads, (or what seemed to be just about all of them), were paved with gold for Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan when he won the New Zealand Rural Games Speed Shear titles this weekend.
Fagan embarked on a rugged travel schedule, which started with a flight from Hamilton to Christchurch, followed by a 110km drive from Christchurch to the Mayfield A and P Show.
Travelling Jack claims second
Rural Games speed shear title
All roads, or what
seemed to be just about all of them, were paved with gold
for Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan as he today became the first
to win two New Zealand Rural Games Speed Shear
titles.
Successfully defending the title he won last
year, it was Fagan’s second speed shear win in a rugged
travel schedule which took him on a flight from Hamilton to
Christchurch a 110km drive from Christchurch to the Mayfield
A and P Show, and the 142km from Mayfield to Sefton on
Saturday, and the next morning the drive from Sefton to