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Welsh shearer Llyr Jones (left) gets to the button first in the NZ Shearing Championships open speed shear final. However, his 41-second time for two lambs was disqualified by the judges. Photo / ...

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It sounds like the start of a classic Aussie joke … a shearer and a sheep walk into the front baa-r. But that's exactly how it happened at a country pub in south-eastern South Australia last weekend.

Son-of-a-gun shearer Jack Fagan earned $4000 for barely a couple of minutes' shearing as he picked off two of New Zealand's biggest speed shear prizes at the weekend. Fagan won the $2000 first prize ...

Since its beginnings in 2012, Penybont Speed Shear has firmly set the bar for shearing competitions in the community, raising many thousands of pounds for charities in the process. Charities have ...

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Jack Fagan (left) pips event favourite Jimmy Samuels to successfully defend the Rural Games sp[eed shearing title in Palmerston North todsy (Sunday). Photo / SSNZ Travelling Jack claims second Rural ...