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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...

SSNZA/Supplied Napier’s Angela Stevens in the thick of the action at the end of the Āpiti open woolhandling final on Saturday. Southland shearers who loomed as the biggest hopes for a first South Island win in the Golden Shears open final in 32 years are returning home gutted after Covid-19 stripped them of the opportunity. The end of the dream came when the 61st Golden Shears, scheduled to start in Masterton on Thursday, were cancelled after Sunday’s Covid-19 alert level increase. Southland shearers Nathan Stratford, Leon Samuels and Brett Roberts underpinned their prospects by finish...