NZ Shearing Champs Day Two: Sean Fagan wins novice final 9 Apr, 2021 04:30 AM 4 minutes to read New NZ Shears novice champion Sean Fagan (left), with his grandfather John and father Neil. Photo / SSNZ New NZ Shears novice champion Sean Fagan (left), with his grandfather John and father Neil. Photo / SSNZ The Country Shearing sports has saluted the emergence of the next generation of Fagan champions. Sean Fagan (16) won 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 the Les Munro Centre was Sean's grandfather John Fagan who won the Shears' first open final in 1985, when it was known as the King Country Shears. This was a year after John won the Golden Shears Open final in Masterton.