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Former World champions shearer Nathan Stratford and wool handler Joel Henare have won the two major titles at the first event of the new shearing sports season. ....
Shearing Sports New Zealand Leon Samuels, of Invercargill, on his way to winning the New Zealand Shears circuit final in Te Kuiti on Saturday night. Earlier in the day, Samuels won the National All-Breeds Circuit final. Invercargill shearer Leon Samuels is still buzzing after leading what s been dubbed a “southern blast” by organisers of the New Zealand Shears shearing and woolhandling championships. Samuels won the New Zealand Shears Circuit final before taking the New Zealand Shears Open Plate title, and leading the South Island team to their first inter-island win on northern soil in 13 years. “Words can’t explain what I’m feeling,” he said on Sunday after arriving back in Invercargill from the national competition held in Te Kuiti at the weekend. ....
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Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 12:31 pm Organisers of the New Zealand Shears are breathing a sigh of relief as they bounce-back from the cancellation of last year’s event to stage the 2021 championships starting in Te Kuiti tomorrow(Thursday). More than 200 shearers and woolhandlers will compete in the three-day championships, which 12 months ago became one of the early casualties of the 2021 Covid-19 Level 4 lockdown – called-off for the first time since the New Zealand championships were resurrected initially as the new King Country Shears in 1985. While a Level 2 alert which cancelled this year’s Golden Shears in Masterton at just four days’ notice a month ago sent shivers up the spines ....