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Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford completed his most successful two days in over 20 shears of competition with three wins and the ultimate goal of New Zealand World Championships team selection at the New Zealand Corriedale Championships which ended in Christchurch today.
Just when he could have sat back contented having achieved the real goal of a top-two finish in the team selection final, Stratford then won the Corriedale championships Open final and with Rakaia shearer Tony Coster took the Canterbury Shears team to a comfortable win over the Queensland team of Phil Schaff, of Chinchilla, and Terry O’Leary, of Warwick.
On Thursday, 42-year-old father-of-two Stratford also won the Canterbury Circuit final, but before the show finished he had one more duty, deputising at the Senior final presentation for winner and Napier shearer Ricci Stevens, who had to leave early for home, and the Central Hawke’s Bay A and P Show in Waipukurau tomorrow,
The triumphs came after a lot of hard work as Stratford strove to give Invercargill a home-town hope in the 40th anniversary World Championships in ILT Stadium Southland on February 8-11.
Starting from the last week of September, Stratford had shorn in eight competitions, from Alexandra in the south to Hastings in the north, and in two trips to Australia, one of them to Perth. He hasn’t shied-away from the smaller outfits, having shorn the Ellesmere Show at Leeston, and is planning to shear the West Otago A and P Show next week in Tapanui.
Despite the targeted effort, he
said he was “shocked” by the outcome of the selection
trial – finishing runner-up to Napier shearer John
Kirkpatrick, the pair making it into the championships at
the expense of reigning World, Golden Shears and New Zealand
champion Rowland Smith, of Hastings, who Stratford beat by
just 0.032pts.
Stratford said he “wasn’t happy”
with how he’d gone in the 20-sheep selection final, in
which he finished more than a sheep behind Darin Forde of
Invercargill and Smith.
“I thought I was too slow,”
he said, before learning how quality had won over time in
the final count. “I still thought it would be Johnny and
Rowland.”
Having already stepped up the work with
trainer Sid Cummings, he immediately recognised winning a
World title would be yet another step.
“I’ve worked
with him for several years,” he said. “We set a new
programme about eight weeks ago. Now we’ll probably have
to set a newer one.”
Canterbury veteran Grant Smith was
runner-up in the 10-sheep Corriedales final, which defending
champion Troy Pyper, also of Invercargill, raced through in
the fastest time of 12min 28.44sec – more than
half-a-minute clear of Forde, the next to finish.
Stevens
won the Senior final a comfortable 7pts clear of runner-up
Phoenix Hawkins, of Ashburton, the Intermediate final was
won by Lincoln graduate Sarah Higgins, of Havelock, and the
Junior final was won by young Kaikoura shearer Marohi
Kennedy, who had burst onto the scene with a win in his
first final at the Marlborough A and P Show last
week.
Fairlie farmer Tony Dobbs won the New Zealand
bladeshearing Championship for a 15th time, and in doing so
completed a cleansweep of all eight bladeshearing titles in
the New Zealand World Championships team selection
series.
Results from the New Zealand Corriedale and
Canterbury Shearing Championships at the Canterbury Show in
Christchurch today (Friday):
Canterbury Circuit final
(10 sheep): Nathan Stratford (Invercargill) 16min 55.93sec,
78.697pts, 1; Tony Coster (Rakaia) 15min 52.16sec,
79.508pts, 2; Abraham Berkelaar (Christchurch) 18min
11.88sec, 80.794pts, 3; Grant Smith (Rakaia) 16min 58sec,
88.8pts, 4; Darin Forde (Lornville/Tuatapere) 16min 7.53sec,
89.477pts, 5; Brett Roberts (Mataura) 17min 37.12sec,
97.456pts, 6.
New Zealand Corriedale
Chamopionships:
Open final (10 sheep): Nathan Stratford
(Invercargill) 13min 56.22sec, 69.396pts, 1; Grant Smith
(Rakaia) 13min 58.38sec, 70.294pts, 2; Rowland Smith
(Hastings) 13min 40.22sec, 70.761pts, 3; Darin Forde
(Lornville) 13min 5.47sec, 73.524pts, 4; Troy Pyper
(Invercargill) 12min 28.44sec, 74.047pts, 5; Ant Frew
(Oamaru) 15min 17.6sec, 87.63pts, 6.
Senior final (5
sheep): Ricci Stevens (Napier) 12min 48.19sec, 64.81pts, 1;
Phoenix Hawkins (Ashburton) 12min 0.06sec, 71.403pts, 2;
Nathan Adams (Christchurch) 12min 26.16sec, 73.308pts, 3;
Linton Palmer (Dipton) 14min 29.35sec, 75.068pts, 4; Lyall
Windleburn (Waiau) 11min 11.15sec, 76.758pts, 5; Corey Smith
(Rakaia) 12min 59.5sec, 81.975pts, 6.
Intermediate final
(3 sheep): Sarah Higgins (Havelock) 10min 55.65sec,
58.116pts, 1; Mitchell Murray (Ashburton) 8min 27.06sec,
64.02pts, 2; Kaleb Avery (Blenheim) 10min 14.91sec,
66.412pts, 3; Brandon Maguire Ratima (Winton)10min 54.41sec,
67.721pts, 4; Jordan Hart (Blenheim) 10min 32.25sec,
72.279pts, 5; Sam Thomson (Waipara) 9min 46.94sec,
94.014pts, 6.
Junior final (3 sheep): Marohi Kennedy
(Kaikoura) 10min 17.31sec, 75.199pts, 1; Liam Norrie
(Geraldine) 13min 20.88sec, 83.044pts, 2; Sam Bryan
(Hororata) 13min 4.19sec, 94.21pts, 3; Lachlan Kitt (-)
10min 27.87sec, 98.394pts, 4; Mac Davis (Falkland Islands)
9min 38.35sec, 107.918pts, 5; Harrison Oliver (Waiau) 10min
25.15sec, 115.924pts, 6.
Blades final (5 sheep): Tony
Dobbs (Fairlie) 16min 8.72sec, 71.436pts, 1; Peter Race
(Rakaia) 16min 20.81sec, 74.441pts, 2; Allen Gemmell
(Rangiora) 15min 24.57sec, 76.029pts, 3; Bill Michelle
(Timaru) 15min 21.5sec, 77.075pts, 4; Brian Thomson
(Christchurch) 16min 49.56sec, 82.278pts, 5; Noel Handley
(Rangiora) 15min 36.34sec, 90.217pts,
6.
Canterbury-Queensland Challenge (5 sheep): Canterbury
Shears 117.283pts (Nathan Stratford, Invercargill, 9min
47.5sec, 53.775pts; Tony Coster, Rakaia 10min 2.15sec,
63.508pts) beat Queensland 132.133pts (Phil Schaff,
Chinchilla, 9min 53.72sec, 58.286pts; Terry O’Leary 9min
52.94sec, 73.487pts) by
14.85pts.
ENDS
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