Shearing World Record – LATEST

Te Kuiti shearer Stacey Te Huia waters-up at the end of the second run of his World shearing record east of Benneydale in the King Country today.

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From Doug Laing, on behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand

January 22, 2015

Shearing World Record – LATEST

Te Kuiti shearer Stacey Te Huia remains three sheep shy of World record pace in his bid to crack a nine-hours strongwool ewes shearing record today in a King Country woolshed.

At the end of the second of five runs – with 3hrs 45mins behind him, 36-year-old Te Huia had shorn 295 of Te Hape Station’s perendale ewes.

Current holder Rod Sutton had shorn 298 at the equivalent stage of his big day in January 2007, when he shore the record of 721 – an average of over 80 an hour and beating the previous record by a single sheep.

Te Huia shore 155 in the opening two hours to breakfast today, which compared with Sutton’s opening run of 158 eight years ago. In the next run, of 1hr 45mins, Te Huia matched Sutton’s second run of 140, including 81 in the first hour after the hour-long break.

He went to morning smoko at 9.45am, and will pass the halfway mark during the third run from 10.15am to the hour-long lunch break starting at midday.

The woolshed’s limited spectator space was packed by the break, and a CCTV feed is able to be watched outside, where temperatures are expected to soar to over 30deg later in the day.

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