Shearing record
PA Wellington The new world lambshearing record holder, Alan MacDonald, sheared 762 Coopworth ewe and wether lambs in nine hours on Saturday to capture the title. He said the encouragement of several former record holders had helped push him to a new mark in a woolshed on the Donnelly Estate near the King Country township of Pio Pio. MacDonald, a 25-year-old contractor, runs three gangs. Another Pio Pio shearer, MacDonald’s former Pio Pio High School classmate, David Fagan, set the previous mark exactly 12 months earlier.
The lambs on Saturday were about three weeks older than those shorn by
Fagan and were consequently a bit bigger and carried longer wool.
Fagan and his older brother, John, who in 1982 held the lamb and ewe records simultaneously, were key men behind the staging of Saturday’s attempt, with more than a dozen other members of the close-knit King Country shearing community.
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Press, 22 December 1986, Page 3
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