It's all on in shear records week

It's all on in shear records week

Hawke's Bay shearer Cam Ferguson is all set for his bid to cap an amazing 10 month rise to the top with a World record bid in a King Country woolshed tomorrow (monday).

Winner of the Golden Shears Open final last March and the World title in July, the 27-year-old from Waipawa is challenging a strongwool lambs record of 736 in eight hours set near Rotorua by Canterbury-based Irish shearer Ivan Scott two years ago.

Ferguson shore 10 lambs this afternoon (sunday) before the judges at Moketenui Station, between Te Kuiti and Benneydale, to establish the lambs met the World Sheep Shearing Records Society's minimum wool requirement of 900g each, and event manager and shearing great David Fagan said the all-clear was given with an average of 980g.

Starting at 7am, Ferguson will need to get up to an early average of 23 or more every quarter-hour in his bid over four two-hours runs, broken by 30 minutes for morning and afternoon smoko and an hour for lunch.

It's the start of the busiest week in shearing records history, with brothers Rowland and Doug Smith, from Ruawai in the Far North, challenging a two-stand ewes record on Tuesday, and Scott on Friday going for the big one, Hawke's Bay shearer Dion King's nine-hours record of 866 lambs, both at woolsheds between Napier and Taupo.

For updates during the records go to www.shearingsports.co.nz

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