{"id":244484,"date":"2026-01-21T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244484\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:49:14","slug":"womens-four-stand-shearing-world-record-of-1938-lambs-in-eight-hours-set-in-south-otago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244484\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s four-stand shearing world record of 1938 lambs in eight hours set in South Otago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">But the trailblazers collectively shore more in each two-hour run than the 473 shorn in the only two-hour run of a four-stand women\u2019s nine-hour record of 2066.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">That record was at Waihi Pukawa Station, near the shores of Lake Taup\u014d in the Central North Island, in January 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Ariana \u201cMissy\u201d Te Whata was credited with 504. <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Te Whata grew up around Mossburn in Southland and is the niece of two world record holders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Master Woolhandler and 2019 World Teams Woolhandling Champion Pagan Rimene, of Alexandra, shore 481. <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Rimene is the daughter of former world record holder Dion Morrell and world champion woolhandler Tina Rimene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">The other 423 were accredited to grandmother Rose Lewis, from Man\u016bt\u016bke on the East Coast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">In 2008, Rimene broke her back in a van crash, once saying a specialist had told her the strength of her back from shearing enabled her dramatic recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Increasing the pace all day, the four shore 475 in the first two hours to morning tea, 479 in the next run to lunch, and 492 in each of the runs after lunch, during which sunshine appeared outside for the first time with about an hour to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Dion Morrell, who was in his daughter\u2019s pen for much of the day, said the lambs were \u201ca bit average in condition\u201d after recent cold weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">They had grown a lot of wool in recent weeks, as highlighted in a sample shear of 20 lambs on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Te Atakura Crawford, who shore the biggest tally of 530 in the trailblazing four-stand women's eight-hour strongwool lambs record.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Te Atakura Crawford, who shore the biggest tally of 530 in the trailblazing four-stand women&#8217;s eight-hour strongwool lambs record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">This averaged 1.228kg of wool per lamb, well over the minimum of 0.9kg required for the seven referees to allow the attempt to go ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe lambs determine what you can shear; they were not as easy as some might think,\u201d Morrell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">He highlighted the moment when all four made their last catches of the day, with just seconds remaining on the clock, adding four last lambs to the total which soared above the forecast 1900 and left behind the 1930 projected early in the third run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMy God, the girls showed some grit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe whole place lit up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" The final tallies for the four-stand women's eight-hour strong wool lamb world record, set in a South Otago woolshed on Tuesday.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> The final tallies for the four-stand women&#8217;s eight-hour strong wool lamb world record, set in a South Otago woolshed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">A crew of more than 20 worked throughout the day in and around the shearing board and pens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">At least as many others were involved in other ways, in another display of the shearing industry\u2019s fraternal support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Scott Cameron of Southern Wide Shearing headed the event, and the referees were convenor Mark Buscomb, from Australia, and New Zealand officials Neil Fagan, Bart Hadfield, Ronnie King, Alistair Emslie, Johnny Fraser, and Donald Johnston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">It was the first of two multi-stand shearing record attempts in the southern regions this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">On January 31, Shane Ratima, Paerata Abraham and Leon Samuels will tackle the three-stand, eight-hour strongwool lambs record at Waihelo Station, Moa Flat, West Otago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the trailblazers collectively shore more in each two-hour run than the 473 shorn in the only two-hour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[121520,143141,13845,9787,3011,143140,1345,11551,78,73822,111,43,139,69,1118,9629,1523,78775,1974,1551,143142,50410,143143,1240,6436,2834,131441,377],"class_list":["post-244484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-121520","tag-143141","tag-eight","tag-female","tag-four","tag-fourstand","tag-home","tag-hours","tag-in","tag-lambs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-otago","tag-over","tag-powered","tag-record","tag-set","tag-shearers","tag-shearing","tag-shorn","tag-south","tag-well","tag-womens","tag-woolshed","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}