NEW Zealand’s shearing royalty packed a remote Wairarapa wool shed yesterday for what was the first trans-global attack on a ...

Chris the sheep, a merino famed for once being discovered ... It was later removed by a national shearing champion, Ian Elkins, who said he had never seen anything like it in 35 years of work.

Shearing records are classed based on sheep type, an eight or nine hour work day, and gender. Ms Lyons's 8hr merino lamb record attempt mirrored a standard shearing work day consisting of four 2hr ...

Nikki Lyons was 15 when she picked up her mother's dressmaking scissors to shear her pet lamb for the first time.

It’s under the auspices of the World Sheep Shearing Records Society, with a five-man international refereeing panel monitoring the tallies and the quality, convened by former England international ...

INTERGENERATIONAL dedication and excellent preparation of quality Saxon wool has won the prestigious Vitale Barberis Canonico Wool Excellence Award for Victorian superfine growers, the Linke family at ...

Chris’s remarkable story of survival made news around the world, so when he was rescued and finally shorn by champion shearer ...

He started at the New Zealand Merino Championships in Alexandra ... But it was close, with Grace first to finish, shearing the North Island’s first 10-sheep Senior final of the season in ...