A shearer from the Tararua District has smashed a world record in Southland.
Sacha Bond, who grew up around Woodville and went to Tararua High School, shore 601 lambs to set a solo women’s 8 hours strongwool lambshearing record at Fairlight Station, off the southern end of Lake Wakatipu, on Saturday.
It was 91 more than the previous record of 510 lambs, set by Canadian shearer Pauline Boly in the Waikato rural locality of Waikaretu in December 2019.
The 29-year-old mother-of-one is now a shearer and contractor based in King Country with partner Coel L’Hullier, who three years ago shore 677 in a men’s three-stand record.
Bond actually shore 607 during the day, but six were rejected by World Sheep Shearing Records Society judges for not meeting record-shearing quality standards - such as leaving wool on, or second cuts in the wool - but there were no significant cuts to sheep requiring any others to be discarded.
