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Wayne Keating
March 4, 2018

The ultimate rousie hits a century

Wayne Keating
March 4, 2018
 The ultimate rousie hits a century

It may have taken more than 30 years but a woolhandler was the genuine star of the final night of the 58th Golden Shears in Masterton tonight as ultimate rousie Joel Henare overshadowed the performance of shearing phenomenon Rowland Smith.

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Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018

All square in sports shears test

Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018
All square in sports shears test

Two transtasman tests at the Golden Shears have been shared 1-1 each after the shearing team of World champions John Kirkpatrick, Nathan Stratford and Rowland Smith was unable to keep in touch with their Australian visitors on the finewooled merinos that dominated their shearing match.

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Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018

No problems this time as Maguire Ratima nails Intermediate title

Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018
No problems this time as Maguire Ratima nails Intermediate title

It was payback time for Southland shearer Brandon Mguire-Ratima as he won the Golden Shears Intermediate shearing final in Masterton this afternoon.

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Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018

Top lineups in tonight’s Golden Shears finals

Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018

Gun Hawke’s Bay shearer Rowland Smith has hit the mildest of speed bumps but still qualified to defend the Golden Shears Open title in Masterton.

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Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018

Surprise entrant, surprise winner

Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018
Surprise entrant, surprise winner

One of the stalwart families of the 58 years of Golden Shears has celebrated a significant success today with the winning of the Golden Shears veterans woolhandling event in Masterton.

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Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018

Happy travellers make it to multi-wool shears final

Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018
Happy travellers make it to multi-wool shears final

Two New Zealand shearers working in Australia have realised a dream by qualifying for tonight’s final of the PGG Wrightson Wool National Circuit championship at the Golden Shears in Masterton.

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Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018

Former woolhandling champion collapses at Golden Shears

Wayne Keating
March 3, 2018
Former woolhandling champion collapses at Golden Shears

A former two-times Golden Shears woolhandling champion is in Wellington Hospital after collapsing in front of about 800 spectators while competing in a Veterans event at the 58th annual shearing and woolhandling championships in Masterton last night.

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Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018

Smith closing in repeat Golden Shears win

Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018
Smith closing in repeat Golden Shears win

Hawke’s Bay shearer Rowland Smith continued his march towards his defence of the Golden Shears Open title by heading the field in both the heats and the quarterfinals on the second day of the 58th annual championships in Masterton today.

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Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018

On target Goodger upholds family tradition at Golden Shears

Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018
On target Goodger upholds family tradition at Golden Shears

It was the first bale of wool Vinnie Goodger had pressed in a year, but it was bang on the button as he successfully defended his Golden Shears men’s woolhandling title in front of his home Wairarapa crowd in Masterton’s War Memorial Stadium tonight.

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Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018

Triumph and despair on Day 2 at the Golden Shears

Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018

Master Woolhandler and former World teams title winner Keryn Herbert was possibly the major casualty of the preliminary rounds of the Golden Shears major events when she was eliminated in the heats of the Open Woolhandling Championship today.

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Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018

MP: I’m not giving up the Golden Shears

Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018
MP: I’m not giving up the Golden Shears

When a guy becomes a Member of Parliament there are some things he just can’t give up.

For Masterton-based Labour Government List MP Keiran McAnulty that something is his role as MC at one of the biggest events in his region – the Golden Shears.

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Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018

“Gizzie hard” it is as prize goes east again

Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018
“Gizzie hard” it is as prize goes east again

The Gisborne area again dominated the opening day of the Golden Shears with two wins in the three events decided in Masterton today.

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Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018

Winning at Golden Shears – Just learning

Wayne Keating
March 2, 2018
Winning at Golden Shears – Just learning

Two teenagers who’ve barely had time to come to grips with the tension and fight of the handpiece have claimed the first of more than 20 titles to be presented at the 58th Golden Shears in Masterton today.

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Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017

A golden Shears cleansweep for shearing gun Smith

Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017
A golden Shears cleansweep for shearing gun Smith

Northland-raised Hawke’s Bay shearer Rowland Smith has tonight completed an amazing reply to his omission from the New Zealand World Championships team with a cleansweep of major events on the final night of the 57th Golden Shears in Masterton

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Rowland Smith winner

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Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017

Shearer Stevens wins woolhandling

Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017
Shearer Stevens wins woolhandling

It wasn’t so much the title he wanted but it’ll do for Napier shearer Ricci Stevens after he won the Junior woolhandling title at the 57th Golden Shears in Masterton today.

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Ricci Stevens woolhandler

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Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017

South Island hope for Golden Sherars title

Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017

Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford has loomed as a big hope of claiming the South Island’s first win in the Golden Shears Open final for the first time in 28 years.

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Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017

A dream comes true for Alexander

Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017
A dream comes true for Alexander

It was a bit more than a dream come true for Taranaki shearer Darren Alexander as he won the Golden Shears Senior shearing title, emulating the win by father Lloyd Alexander in 1988.

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Darren Alexander

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Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017

Team NZ intact after Baty circuit win

Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017
Team NZ intact after Baty circuit win

The World champion New Zealand woolhandling team of Gisborne’s Joel Henare and Mayryanne Baty has been kept intact for next season’s Transtasman series after Baty’s win today in the North Island Open woolhandling circuit final it the Golden Shears in Masterton.

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Maryanne Baty

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Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017

Nine years, but worth the wait as McLean nails second Goldies

Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017
Nine years, but worth the wait as McLean nails second Goldies

A bit of pining for home was behind the success of Taihape’s Jamie McLean as she won her second Golden Shears woolhandling title in Mssterton today.

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Senior Woolhandlers

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Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017

Ferguson wins with a guiding hand – another Ferguson

Wayne Keating
March 4, 2017
Ferguson wins with a guiding hand – another Ferguson

Shearing at the Golden Shears was one of the last things on the mind of farmer Mark Ferguson as he started to the feel the grip of a tough Hawke’s Bay summer a while before Christmas.

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Mark Ferguson - winner

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