A top Canterbury shearer is planning to bow out of top competition this Easter.

Record number of nominations have been received for Bay awards.

It has been a stellar few weeks for Dunedin-based woolhandler Joel Henare.

It was a triple clean sweep at the New Zealand Shearing Championships for Rowland Smith

Hot favourites keep their places at the top of New Zealand shearing sports

Hawke's Bay shearer Rowland Smith is on the way to a rare treble at the NZ Championships

Two in a row for Brittany Tibble in the NZ Senior woolhandling final in Te Kuiti

It's the opening day of the three-day New Zealand Shearing Championships in Te Kuiti

Sir David Fagan gives us the lowdown on the New Zealand Shearing Championships.

Rowland Smith is the favourite for a rare treble of the three Open titles at the nationals

Taranaki's shearing competition featured world champions. Made with funds from NZ On Air.

Two Hawke's Bay shearers could be lining up together to fight for the honour of their country in a shearing test in Australia later this year.

Kahuranaki farmer Mark Ferguson, 43, claimed NZ's biggest Junior shearing title.

Hawke's Bay shearer Rowland Smith on Saturday completed an amazing triple-banger cleansweep at the Golden Shears, while in training

Northland-raised Hawke's Bay shearer Rowland Smith has tonight completed an amazing reply to his omission from the New Zealand World

Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford has loomed as a big Golden Shears hope

A Napier couple is looking towards a unique double at the Golden Shears in Masterton today, although not the one they were after. Married

Two crack Kiwi woolhandlers have drawn first blood in the Masterton leg of the twin Transtasman shearing and woolhandling series'

Gisborne woolhandler Aromia Ngarangione only wanted to pay off the student loan

Smith's formidable shearing reputation has lead the TAB to open a pool excluding him from the options.

Alexandra woolhandler Pagan Karauria dreams of winning Golden Shears title

The world's most decorated shearer wraps the World Shearing Champs, the Southern Shears and yesterday's new world eight-hour record for ewes.

Southland shearer Leon Samuels today set a new world solo eight-hours strongwool ewe-shearing record after a tally of 605 in a woolshed north of Gore.

Another World shearing record attempt has been given the all-clear to go ahead in Southland today.

It'll be as if nothing's missed a beat for many top shearers and woolhandlers, judges and officials as the 52nd two-day Southern Shears

We yarn to the world's best shearer who's amazingly back on the job in the Hawkes Bay after his winning the world title in Invercargill on Saturday night.

''This one's for Joanne Kumeroa,'' an emotional Joel Henare said winning the World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships woolhandling

There is something about what is arguably the world's most physically demanding job that gets under your skin and never quite goes away writes Wayne Perkins.

Napier shearer John Kirkpatrick reached the pinnacle of a 20-year career at the top when he realised the long-held dream of becoming

It was a New Zealand and South Africa night tonight as the two traditional rugby nations turned their rivalry to the woolshed on