New Zealand beats England in shearing test
New Zealand beats England in shearing test
The New
Zealand shearing team has had a big day by beating England
in a test match and dominating the Lakeland Shears in the
North of England.
The black-singlet pair of Hawke’s Bay
guns Rowland Smith and John Kirkpatrick beat England
internationals Adam Berry and Antony Rooke 4.85pts in the
test match at Cockermouth, Cumbria.
The Kiwis also
mastered the local herdwick breed as Smith retained the
Lakeland Shears Open title in a Kiwi one-two finish in the
feature event of the one-day championships, the second stop
on the CP Wool Sharing Sports New Zealand team UK
tour.
The Kiwis, who were beaten by Scotland in the
opening match of the tour last week, now face a second test
against England at the Great Yorkshire Show on Wednesday,
followed by a nine-day break from competition before
launching ino a four-test series against Wales.
Meawhile,
a Scottish shearer has shown 2142 in a two-day fundraising
effort about 100km west of Cockermouth at High Balyett Farm,
Stranraer, near the shores lof Loch Ryan in the sourthwest
of Scotland..
Grant Hurcomb raising funds for Cancer
Research UK and MND Scotland, started at 6pm Thursday and
finished at 9pm Saturday local time (8am today New Zealand
time).
Taking a half-hour break every two hours, with
one-hour breaks 24 hours ninto the event and 12 hours later,
Hurcomb averaged more than 53 sheep an hour in the almost 40
hours on the board.
In 2015 Hurcomb shore 934 in 24
hours.
In another big effort for UK and continental
shearing, French shearers Christoffe Riffaud and Julien
Dincq have over the weekend established a two-stand French
record of over 1000 sheep in nine-hours.
The pair were
shearing overnight (New Zeaand time) at Le Dorat in Central
France, where they are among those staging the next World
shearing and woolhandling championships in July
2019.
Results from the CP Wool New Zealand shearing team
UK Tour and Lakeland Shears at Cockermouth, Cumbria, on
Saturday, July 8, 2017:
CP Wool New Zealand Tour test
match (20 sheep): New Zealand (Rowland Smith 14min 5sec,
49.65pts; John Kirkpatrick 15min 25sec, 52.8pts) 102.45pts,
beat England (Adam Berry 14min 14sec, 51pts; Antony Rooke
15min 51sec, 56.2pts) 107.2pts.
Lakeland Shears Open
final (20 sheep): Rowland Smith (New Zealand) 14min 27sec,
49.25pts, 1; John Kirkpatrick (New Zealand) 14min 29sec,
49.65pts, 2; Gwion Evans (Wales) 14min 33sec, 51.01pts, 3;
Calum Shaw (Scotland) 15min 49sec, 52.45pts, 4; Matthew
Evans (Wales) 14min 41sec, 53.7pts, 5.
ENDS