On January 23, 2020, Amy Silcock, from Tiraumea, was part of a four-women team that set a world record of shearing 2066 strong wool ewe lambs in nine hours at Waihi-Pukawai Station, Turangi.
Two years on, organisation is in place for Silcock to attempt to beat the current 370 Romney ewes in eight hours for a woman, set just two months ago.
This time the site will be Matthew and Sarah Walker’s farm at 7 Ballance Rd, on January 27, 2023.
Why does she want to put herself through all the pain and exhaustion described by iconic world shearer Jills Angus Burney, herself a world record holder, as the equivalent of an ultra-marathon?
Silcock said she wanted to test her mental and physical limits, having only picked up shearing eight years ago as, an alternative to station management and an opportunity to tour the world. She has done that too, shearing in Scotland and even the Falklands when the opportunity arose.