Awards are starting to take a diverse complexion for former Hawke's Bay shearer Matt Smith.
At the Golden Shears in Masterton on Saturday night he received his Master Shearer Award, just after being named the UK Farmers Weekly's Sheep Farmer of the Year in Britain.
The latest presentation recognised his record-breaking achievements in the woolshed, most notably the 731 ewes he shore at Trefranck Farm, near Launceston in Cornwall on July 26, 2016.
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He had previously, at Waitara Station, north of Te Pohue in December 2010, shorn an eight-hour record of 578, a figure now overshadowed by the 644 brother Rowland shore at Trefranck Farm last July, and which was also recognised on Saturday night with a presentation from the World Sheep Shearing Records Society, soon after Rowland Smith won his fifth Golden Shears Open title.