Thursday, 28 January 2021, 7:48 am Some of New Zealand’s top shearers and woolhandlers will be heading back to school as private wool industry trainer Elite puts even the best through a time-honoured tradition of big-time prep-work ahead of this year’s Golden Shears. The high-performance pre-shears course on March 1-2 builds on a history started by the New Zealand Wool Board in the earliest days of the Golden Shears, which are to be held for the 61st time in Masterton’s War Memorial Stadium later in the same week, on March 4-6. Four-times Golden Shears Open shearing champion and 2017 World titles winner John Kirkpatrick and 2019 World