The shearing sports will have an unusually-busy post-Christmas resumption this week, particularly in the North Island.
With the competition season having had its annual break through the peak of the year at work in the woolsheds, four days of shearing sports starting on Friday will see two major speedshears, two A and P Show shearing championships and a World Record bid.
The busy weekend opens with the second North Island Speedshear Championships on Friday at Te Kuiti's Waitete Rugby Club, starting at 7pm, with prizes worth more than $6500.
Included is a new memorial trophy commemorating shearer Beau St George who died in a car crash in France last April, just seven weeks before he was to marry his French fiancee.
![Beau St George](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/AICTS45BSDPLZE2GRUXEZXU3XE.jpg?auth=d401739df52bd4e00ccfd4440bd70872c6650d5ba8e0c4328136159846de7a68&width=16&height=27&quality=70&smart=true)