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January 27, 2023: Amy Silcock, from Tiraumea, will, at Ross Na Clonagh, near Pahiatua, attempt the solo woman ' s 8 hour strong wool ewe record of 370, shorn by Marie Prebble, of England, at Trefrank Farm, Cornwall, England, on August 25, 2022.

February 4, 2023: Sacha Bond, from Woodville and living in the King Country, will, at Fairlight Station, Southland, attempt the Woman's 8 hour strong wool lamb record of 510, shorn by Pauline Bolay, of Canada, at Whitford Farms, Waikaretu, on December 7, 2019 shearing record frenzy has hit the Antipodes the past few months with several more in the diary to come!

February 18, 2023: Aidan Copp, from Christchurch but based in Gunning, NSW, will, at Gala Estate, Cranbrook, Tasmania, attempt to regain the solo 8 hour crossbred lamb record of 527, shorn by Floyde Neil, of Boyup Brook, West Australia, but from Taumarunui, near Kojonup, W A , on November 13, 2022.

February 25, 2023: Aidan Copp will, at Cranbrook, Tasmania, attempt the solo 8 hour merino ewe record of 497, shorn by Louis Brown, from Napier but based in Australia, near Kojonup, W.A., on April 27, 2019.

Ozzie based Kiwi shearer Floyde Neil set a new World record in November Neil, son of a record breaking King Country shearer – Roger Neil (still the joint-holder of a four-stand nine-hour strong wool lamb record shorn near Turangi almost 15 years ago) set a solo eight-hour Australian crossbred lamb record of 527, near Kojonup, West Australia

Now former holder Aidan Copp, from Canterbury, NZ, who shore 524 near Wagga Wagga, NSW, in August 2019, will hunt the record down again in the first of two record bids he'll make a week apart in Tasmania early in 2023

He'll make the attempt on February 18, and on February 25 will shear the lambs' mothers in an attempt on the crossbred ewes record of 497, set in April 2019 by Lou Brown, from Napier, but also based in Australia

They're among six more record bids on the books of the World Sheep Shearing Records Society for the summer in a post-lockdown flourish, which has already seen three new marks set in the last four months

On 20th December, possibly the youngest shearer to ever attempt a record – teenager Reuben Alabaster

(19) claimed the eight hour strong wool lamb shearing record of 744, set by Irishman Ivan Scott, at Opepe, near Taupo, on January 9, 2012, which had gone unchallenged for almost a decade.

Reuben shore runs of; 188, 183, 187 and 188 to out-do Ivan’s record by two sheep Unfortunately for Reuben, he only held the record for two days as shearing legend David Fagan’s son Jack took up the challenge on 22nd December Fagan shore successive two-hour runs of 191, 183, 190 and 190, an average of just under 38 32 seconds a lamb caught, shorn and dispatched at Ingleby Farms' Puketiti Station, west of State Highway 3 township Piopio. He tallied 754 on the counter, surpassing Reuben by 8 and Ivan by 10

Hawke's Bay shearer Cam Ferguson held the record prior to Ivan, setting it a few months after he won the 2010 World Championships final in Wales.

The record has progressed by 58 over the last 29 years since former Golden Shears Open champion Dion King shore 695 west of Napier in 2002.

Jack’s record came 30 years to the day after his father, the now Sir David Fagan, shore 810 in establishing a new nine-hour record – the ultimate goal in World records shearing

The nine-hour record now stands at 872, and Jack Fagan shore 811 during a five-stand record 12 months ago