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Kaiwaka shearing gun Toa Henderson heads selection for the New Zealand world shears championships team for the 2026 Golden Shears in Masterton on March 4–7. Also in the machine shearers team of two is former Ruawai son, Rowland Smith, now in Hawke’s Bay, together with two blade shears and two woolhanders in the New Zealand Shearing Sports Team. Toa has long claimed the first machine shearing position in an eight-round regional show series dating back almost a year, Northland has produced top hope for the machine shearing title, with the biggest opposition expected to come from defending champion Gwion Evans, of Wales, and 2012 champion, Hawke’s Bay farmer and Scotland national Gavin Mutch.
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New Zealand has gone the last two world championships without winning any of the machine shearing individual or teams’ titles. On Waitangi Day, in the first of three Wools of New Zealand shearing tests against a Welsh duo, pitting two shearers a team over 20 lambs each, first blood went to Toa Henderson. With his place already secured for Masterton he shore the 20 lambs in 14min 40sec, 22 seconds quicker than next-man-off, Jack Fagan, 49 seconds clear of first Welshman Llyr Jones, and more than two minutes quicker than Welsh gun Gwion Evans, who is preparing
for next month’s title he won in Scotland in 2023. The Welsh had the better quality, with Evans knocking-back the time-points deficit with a quality rating more than two points better than either man in the black singlets. It was a big day for Toa who also won the open final, shearing 20 ewes in 14m 58s and winning by 2.5 points from runner-up Jones, scoring his best individual results in a New Zealand show open final. The second test is at the Franklin Show’s Counties Shears on February 22, and the third at the Taumarunui Shears on February 27. ¢
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