Rare All-Male Treble In Pre-Shears Wool Shakedown

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On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand

February 28, 2013

Rare All-Male Treble In Pre-Shears Wool Shakedown

Male woolhandlers scored a rare treble in taking all three titles at the Pre-Shears Championships yesterday(Wednesday) on the eve of the start of the Golden Shears in Masterton.

The Open final was won by World champion Joel Henare, the Senior title by Logan Kamura, of Marton, and the Junior final by South-Island based Daine Rehe, from Te Teko.

The Open triumph was Henare’s sixth win of the season, probably enough to go into Masterton’s big event an outright favourite, just hours after the TAB was unable to separate Henare and Te Awamutu woolhandler Keryn Herbert on the top line of odds as each tries to win a Golden Shears Open title for the first time.

In yesterday’s event at Massey University’s Riverside Farm, north of Masterton, Kimbolton woolhandler and farmer Veronica (Ronnie) Goss loomed even larger as a candidate to win a second Golden Shears Open when she was runner-up.

Reigning New Zealand Open champion Sheree Alabaster, of Taihape, was third and Herbert had to settle for fourth.

The Golden Shears start today (Thursday)with an array of Novice to Senior shearing and woolhandling heats, with Open championship heats tomorrow (Friday) leading to the big finals on Saturday night.

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