Another delay for Ivan Scot’s lambs record bid
From Doug Laing, media officer, Shearing Sports New Zealand
July 30, 2016
Another delay for Ivan Scot’s lambs record bid
Irish shearer Ivan Scott’s bid to become the first non-New Zealand shearer to hold the the World ninehour strongwool lambshearing record has been postponed a further 24 hours because of rain.
The attempt had been scheduled to start at 5am on Friday (4pm New Zealand time) but will now not start till at least that time on Sunday.
Well-known in New Zealand, where he set the eight-hour record in 2012, Scott is set to challenge the record of 866 held by Hawke’s Bay shearer Dion King since January 2007.
Three World Sheep Shearing Records Society judges from New Zealand, Australia and Wales are standing by for the attempt scheduled to take place at Trefranck Farm, near St Clever, in Cornwall, England.
Shearing at the same venue on Tuesday, and becoming the first person to attempt a World shearing record in the Northern Hemisphere, New Zealand shearer Matt Smith broke the nine-hours ewe shearing record which had also stood since 2007.
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