Mataura shearer Brett Roberts scored his first Open final win in over a year with victory at the Mayfield A and P Show in Mid-Canterbury on Saturday. Roberts, 30, hadn’t won since the national full wool championship final at the Northern Southland .
Former No. 1-ranked senior shearer Lionel Taumata finally cracked a win in the open class, as the post-Christmas stage of the 2023-2024 shearing sports.
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
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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
Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 6:57 am
New
Zealand shearing representative Troy Pyper with partner
Ripeka Ferris after Pyper s at the Amuri Shears in North
Canterbury on Saturday. Photo / Elite Wool Industry
Training
Wet sheep proved to be a
winner for New Zealand representative Troy Pyper as he won
the Open final at the Amuri Shears as North Canterbury
started its bounce-back from the Covid-19 Level 2 close-out
on Saturday.
From Invercargill but now settled in
Cheviot, Pyper thought work in the woolshed would keep him
away from the shears at the Rotherham Showgrounds, which
were held amid the Level 2 restrictions and despite the
cancellation of the Amuri A and P Show, of which the