Friday, 9 April 2021, 3:57 pm
New
New Zealand Shears Novice champion Sean Fagan (left),
grandfather and inaugural 198 championships' Open final
winner John Fagan (centre), and Sean's dad, John's son Neil.
Photo / SSNZ
The shearing sports
have saluted the emergence of the next generation of Fagan
champions with a win by 16-year-old Sean Fagan in the Novice
shearing final on the second day of the New Zealand Shears
in hometown Te Kuiti today.
On hand to witness the
achievement in Te Kuiti’s Les Munro Centre was grandfather
John Fagan who won the shears’ first Open final when the
event was established as the King Country Shears in 1985, a