Big chance for up and comers at shearing comps

January 13, 2016

Big chance for up and comers at shearing comps north and south

Budding open class shearing stars who’ve hovered in the shadows of the champions over the years have a chance to make up some lost ground in a variety of A and P show competitions throughout New Zealand on Saturday.

The big guns will be competing in the first two rounds of Shearing Sports New Zealand’s 2017 World championships qualifying series at the Northern Southland Community Shears on Friday and the Southland Shears’ national crossbred lambs shearing and woolhandling championships at the Winton A and P Show on Saturday.

But there are three other shearing competions on Saturday, at the Kaikohe Agricultural, Pastoral and Horticultural Show at the Ngawha Showgrounds in the Far North, the Wairoa A and P Show in Northern Hawke’s Bay, and the Golden Bay A and P Show at Takaka at the top of the South Island.

The Kaikohe is the first of six show shearing competitions north of Auckland this season, including the Kumeu show shears which have been revived this year.

Shearing at all the shows takes place in all four classes from Open to Junior, with events at Kaikohe on Saturday starting at 10.30am, a novice event starting the shearing at Wairoa at 9am and the Golden Bay events starting at 10am.

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