King does it again as shearing guns fire-up Gisborne Show
King does it again as shearing guns fire-up Gisborne
Show
Hastings shearer Dion King
retained the Poverty Bay Show open shearing title with an
outstanding performance in Gisborne on
Saturday.
King shore the 15 final sheep
in 12min 50sec, to win the race by almost half a sheep from
Waipawa gun Cam Ferguson in a battle for time honours
between two shearers who were accorded Master Shearer status
by Shearing Sports New Zealand in the
off-season.
Ultimately, Ferguson had to
settle for third as reigning Golden Shears Open and New
Zealand Open champion John Kirkpatrick, of Napier, with the
better quality points, claimed second place in the first of
several likely all-Hawke’s Bay in the summer’s
Open-class contests trifectas.
Fourth
was Pongaroa farmer David Buick, with early indications of a
serious challenge throughout the season after going close to
making his first Golden Shears Open final last
summer.
Young Te Kuiti gun Jack Fagan
got his first win of his expected last season in the Senior
class, carrying-on from top form in Britain in July and
August. The win came after father and veteran champion David
Fagan ended his day in the Open
semi-finals.
Jack Fagan finished more
than half-a-minute before his nearest rival on the board,
Ruatoria shearer Nukutai Tuhura, and was in a class of his
own with quality, claiming victory by 7.3pts from eventual
runner-up Henare Niania, of
Gisborne.
The intermediate final was
won by rookie contractor Adam Morton, of Wairoa, and Quinton
Sanson, of Feilding, had a first-up Junior
win.
World champion woolhandler Joel
Henare wowed his home crowd by dominating the Open
woolhandling final, with a comfortable win over runner-up
Monica Potae, from Milton, in South Otago, with 2008 World
champion Sheree Alabaster, of Taihape, third, beating fourth
finalist, Vicky Smith, of
Gisborne.
Rahna Watson Paul, based in
Gisborne wth Elders Primary Wool but from Hastings, won the
Senior woolhandling final from runner-up Kyle Wihongi, also
of Hastings, while the Junior woolhandling final provided a
maiden win for Keone Ngarangione, of Gisborne.
The competitions, the first of the new
season in the North Island, attracted 54 shearers and 22
woolhandlers. Heavy rain in the early-afternoon had the
pavilion packed as hundreds sought cover at the A and P
Show.
Results of the Poverty Bay Show
Shears at Gisborne on Saturday, October 13,
2012:
Shearing:
Open final (15 sheep): Dion King
(Hastings) 12min 50sec, 53.76pts, 1; John Kirkpatrick
(Napier) 13min 43sec, 55.14pts, 2; Cam Ferguson (Waipawa)
13min 12sec, 56.53pts, 3; David Buick (Pongaroa) 13min
51sec, 61.54pts, 4.
Senior final (8
sheep): Jack Fagan (Te Kuiti) 9min 49sec, 47.95pts, 1;
Henare Niania (Gisborne) 11min 20sec, 55.25pts, 2; Tui Pene
(Waipawa) 10min 40sec, 57.375pts, 3; Nukutai Tuhura
(Ruatoria) 10min 11sec, 59.3pts,
4.
Intermediate final (4 sheep): Adam
Morton (Wairoa) 6min 23sec, 38.4pts, 1; David Gordon
(Masterton) 6min 7sec, 38.85pts, 2; Alex Smith (Wairoa) 6min
34sec, 42.45pts, 3; Terence Durdy (Gisborne) 6min 16sec,
46.3pts, 4.
Senior final (3 sheep):
Quinton Sanson (Feilding) 8min 14sec, 41.03pts, 1; Ramone
Smith (Gisborne) 8min 55sec, 52.41pts, 2; Duran Smith
(Gisborne)8min 7sec, 53.68pts, 3; Holly Granich (Matawai)
12min 51sec, 59.55pts,
4.
Woolhandling:
Open
final: Joel Henare (Gisborne) 107.4pts, 1; Monica Potae
(Milton/Tokomaru Bay) 155.8pts, 2; Sheree Alabaster
(Taihape) 160.6pts, 3; Vicky Smith (Gisborne) 209.6pts,
4.
Senior final: Rahna Watson-Paul
(Hastings) 126pts, 1; Kyle Wihongi (Hastings) 133.4pts. 2;
Maiden Elers (Mataura) 141.8pts, 3; Carmen Smith (Pongaraoa)
144pts, 4.
Junior final: Keone
Ngarangione (Gisborne) 100pts, 1; Te Rangi Edmonds (-)
100..3pts, 2; Blaze Pineaha (Hastings) 113pts, 3; Viv
Taitapanui (Opotiki) 142pts,
4.
ENDS