Fox vs Fox vs the world

The four Fox brothers of Masterton had plenty to talk about after an action-packed day at the Golden Shears yesterday.
Jordan, 22, Ririwai, 19, Whatahoro, 16, and Manahi Fox, 14, all work together with their father Ben in Masterton company Shear Expertise.
Yesterday, however, it was all competition as the boys pitted their shearing, pressing and woolhandling skills against the world, and each other.
"There'll be a bit of noise in the house tonight, about who did this and who did that," father Ben said.
Ririwai, in his first year at the Shears, picked up a novice handpiece and said afterwards the competition was nothing like the practice.
"You shear heaps in the shed with Dad, and when you get up out there, the ground's a bit shaky; it's weird," he said.
"Cool, though - a different experience."
In the junior shearing Jordan and Manahi were next to each other on stands 5 and 6.
Juniors shear three sheep each, and older brother Jordan finished a minute ahead of Manahi at six and a half minutes.
When penalty points were added in, however, Manahi took the lead, and the brothers finished at 38.150 and 38.425 points respectively - just too high to make the semifinals.
The real grudge match, however, was to be the junior pairs pressing, with Jordan and Whatahoro matched against Ririwai and Manahi - with plenty of competition with other pairings.
Jordan says all four boys got into shearing early.
"[Dad] would take us to work when we were young fellas, just babies growing up, and show us what it was about."
Father Ben - asked if he is the boys' coach - plays down his part in the scheme of things.
"No, I can't claim any credit. They work with me.
"They just jump on every now and then."