World lambshearing record postponed   29 Jul 2016

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From Doug Laing, media officer, Shearing Sports New Zealand.

July 29, 2016.

World lambshearing record postponed

A second World shearing record attempt at the same venue where Kiwi gun Matt Smith put his own mark on history earlier this week has been postponed for 24 hours because of wet weather.

The attempt is that of Irish shearer Ivan Scott who had been set to start his bid for the World nine-hour strongwool lambs record at 4pm today (5am UK time).

But the dampness of the lambs, many of them progeny of the ewes shorn by Smith on Tuesday, meant they were not ready in time for a pre-record shear before the three World Sheep Shearing Record Society, in which a sample of the lambs would have to shear an average of 0.9kg of wool each for the attempt to go ahead.

Scott, 35 and from Co Donegal in the Republic of Ireland, is targeting a record of 866 lambs, set by Hawke’s Bay shearer Dion King in a King Country woolshed in the Central North Island on January 10, 2007. That’s 37.41 seconds a lamb, caught, shorn and dispatched.

Already successful in two bids in New Zealand for the eight-hour record, and the current holder with a tally of 744 shorn in a woolshed just east of Taupo on January 9, 2012, Scott plans to make his bid at Trefranck Farm, near St Clever in the southwest of England.

It’s where Smith smashed the ewes record with a tally of 731 in nine hoursthree days ago, in the first World shearing record bid ever staged in the Northern Hemisphere.

The eight and nine hour days are based on standard woolshed days in New Zealand woolsheds, the nine-hour day spanning 12 hours of the day, comprising a two hour-run to breakfast, followed by three runs of 1hr 45min, with half-hour breaks mid-morning and mid-afternoon, and an hour for lunch.

In 2007, King, who had also held the eight-hour record, opened with record-breaking runs of 196 for two hours and 170 for 1hr 45min, which he followed with runs of 168, 168, and 164.

King, a competition shearing champion who had won the coveted Golden Shears Open final in Masterton just 10 months earlier, and in 2015 won the New Zealand Championships Open final in Te Kuiti, now also farms in Wairarapa, just east of Masterton, the home of the Golden Shears.

Scott is also a champion competition shearer, with multiple titles in the UK, while his biggest win in New Zealand, where he mainly works for Rotorua contractor Jeff Dorset, was the New Zealand Corriedale Championships Open title in 2014.

Mr Dorset is in the UK managing his record.

ENDS


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