Sunday, 10 January 2021, 6:09 am
The
Open shearing final lineup at the Peninsula Duvauchelle
Shears on Saturday. Photo /
Supplied
National 2019-2020 No
1-ranked Open shearer and New Zealand transtasman shearing
series team member Troy Pyper got his second win of the
current season in a close result at the Peninsula
Duvauchelle Shears yesterday(Saturday).
From
Southland, now based in North Canterbury and just back from
shearing in Hawke’s Bay, he won the the title at the
Duvauchelle A and P Show for a third time in a
row.
But there was just a 0.43 points margin from
runner-up Ant Frew, of Pleasant Point, in a 10-sheep Open
Sunday, 3 January 2021, 11:53 am
Last
year s Counties Shears in Pukekohe highlighted the busy
programme of New Zealand s top shearers with four of the
Open finalists having competed in Gore less than 24 hours
earlier, including winner Rowland Smith (left) and Jack
Fagan. Photo /
SSNZ
The
2021 Counties Shears are off as a result of the cancellation
of the Franklin A and P Show which was to have been held in
Pukekohe in mid-February.
The
cancellation of the Shears, which had been scheduled for
February 21, the Sunday of the Show, was confirmed by
competition organiser Emily
Welch.
But she said there will be a