March 27, 2025 • 5 mins
We take in the action of day two at the NZ Shears at Te Kūiti with the world's greatest shearer.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Madonna was as big as anyone on the planet in
nineteen eighty five, and in nineteen eighty five our next
guest was just starting to really make a name for
himself on the sharing circuit. To David Fagan, I wouldn't
be a mile away, would I? With my timing?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah you shore in the age, but knowing that, Jamie,
but yeah you spot on really.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
When did you win your first Golden Shares.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Eighty six?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Eighty six, there you go, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Second to my brother John on eighty four.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yep, But I remember the first sharing competition you ever
won there and there, to my own heart, was in Riversdale.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Soho and Perinale Lamb Sharing Champs. It was called in Riverstyle. Yeah.
It's been been a special place for me over the
years too.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A lot of pretty good pickings down there in the
show and of course the world record at Schallard's place.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So yeah, Riversdale's pretty close to my heart.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah me too. Hey, yeah, you somewhere that's closer to
your heart as your hometown of Tekawiti. It's day two
of the New Zealand Shares of the Big Open Final.
Of course tomorrow night we'll come back to that one,
but just run us through what happens over the three days.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, well we've got right on now.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's all happening right now that we've got all the
lower grades and we've just had the Contractors Relay elimination heats.
Tonight is the finals for the contract Is relay. The
big one will be the Welsh New Zealand Test and
then the North Island Sheer of the Year final tonight.
So well, Welsh New Zealand Tests. It's the third third
of a three test series. The Kiwi Boys of David
(01:30):
Burke and Jack Fagan had to win it one Matino
Shears and my Tomo last weekend, very very close margin
last weekend though, I think it was only a point
in it. So the Welsh boys are actually done really
really well, so it could go anyway tonight. But they
had their first one ever this time last year on
New Zealand soil, so it's that the Kiwi boys can
get up and beat them again.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Now you had the speed Shares. Your boy Jack's always
a favorite at those sort of events. He got pipped
at the post. He'll be he'll be keen to set
the records tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean speeches are always a bit
hit and this anyway, but the Pirride Abram Abraham had
a good win in the Open here last night in
the speech here, and of course tomorrow Saturday, we've got
the big Open final of course tomorrow night, but also
the Zealand Shears Circuit final where the Open winner and
the circuit winner and make the New Zealand team to
(02:22):
go to the UK and France tour through July. So
plenty out for grabs. And of course this is part
of the world team selection circuit that ends next February
at Martin so selecting our New Zealand team for the
Golden Shares World Championships in March.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So anyone that's anyone's here.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, and they're really keen for that one. Roland Smith
has sort of come out of retirement, sort of getting
back into it. I see he's in. He's a tab
he's eight bucks, a hot favorite, not surprisingly for the
Open title tomorrow night, as Tyer Henderson, who of course
broke through at the Golden Shares. He's winning just about everything. David.
(03:00):
He's two dollars ten, which is sort of the odds
you were paying in your heyday.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, look to it's going well, there's no doubt about that.
He had to win at WYMO the other weekend, just
last Saturday, David Burke was seeking jack was food in
that event. I don't discount these other guys, David Burke.
Roland Smith, I mean, Rollin's eight bucks. I've never seen
him out that much, So there might be some pretty
game people putting some money on Roland, I would imagine.
But you know, and there's a bunch of them behind
(03:27):
there too, wedding for one little heckcup from those guys,
and they'll be in in like hungry dogs.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
So it's going to be really interesting to see.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, Leon Samuel's at nine dollars, he won the Golden
Shares what twenty twenty four? Yeah, yes, so he's not
out of it either by a long shot.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Not at all. And yeah, fools in their money, who
could pick it? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Well, I'm not a big punter, David, but I've got
a ta B account. I think five bucks on a
Roland Smith at eight dollars mightn't be a bad week
Friday night bet for me.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yep, yep, I would agrees.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's the most odds I think we've ever seen him pay.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Okay, hey, now, I was going to ask you what
sort of weather you've got in Tekuti for the New
Zealand Shares, But I'm probably asking the wrong question to
the wrong bloke. You're a dairy farmer there as well,
and you guys are in the depths of a terrible drought.
Really you could do with some rain, but you don't
want rain on the back of the sheep, even though
they're all undercover heading into the shares.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We take rain if we'd come today, no problem. Like, Yeah,
we're daring, and we've got a beef property too, and
that's we've been feeding out silogy. You're on the beef
property since the end of January. Two weeks time, all
our sology will be gone and we've just got to
do that to keep things ticking over for you, for
the sake of the animals.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So yeah, rain would be good.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We've had about feeding mill since Christmas, I think that's
all we've had and it's particularly dry monough.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, you're one day closer to rain, and you've got
to take a positive attitude otherwise it would do your head.
And but you've lived all your life into have you
ever known it to be the drive the slate.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh look, it is late, and it's interesting, you know,
when time's go on the market here in my lifetime,
people always say it's King Country summer safe, and we
traditionally were King Country summer safe.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
But we've sort of.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Changed roles with over the East coasts now and I
believe it'll come back again. But we don't get any
droughts up here, but we've got one at the moment.
I do hear the older guys saying the worst one
I think was seventy two or seventy four. But we'll
get through it. I remember a couple of years ago,
three years ago, it was very dry here and we
(05:36):
changed sher milkers come first to June and it was
we had no grass by the end of June with rain.
Everyone was going, what drought. You know, give us a month,
it'll turn around pretty quick. Yep.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You can grow grass on the North Island even in
the winter. Yeah, they advantage over us. South Island is
Sir David Fagan, thanks very much for your time.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Good stuff. Yes,
Madonna was as big as anyone on the planet in
nineteen eighty five, and in nineteen eighty five our next
guest was just starting to really make a name for
himself on the sharing circuit. To David Fagan, I wouldn't
be a mile away, would I? With my timing?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah you shore in the age, but knowing that, Jamie,
but yeah you spot on really.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
When did you win your first Golden Shares.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Eighty six?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Eighty six, there you go, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Second to my brother John on eighty four.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yep, But I remember the first sharing competition you ever
won there and there, to my own heart, was in Riversdale.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Soho and Perinale Lamb Sharing Champs. It was called in Riverstyle. Yeah.
It's been been a special place for me over the
years too.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A lot of pretty good pickings down there in the
show and of course the world record at Schallard's place.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So yeah, Riversdale's pretty close to my heart.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah me too. Hey, yeah, you somewhere that's closer to
your heart as your hometown of Tekawiti. It's day two
of the New Zealand Shares of the Big Open Final.
Of course tomorrow night we'll come back to that one,
but just run us through what happens over the three days.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, well we've got right on now.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's all happening right now that we've got all the
lower grades and we've just had the Contractors Relay elimination heats.
Tonight is the finals for the contract Is relay. The
big one will be the Welsh New Zealand Test and
then the North Island Sheer of the Year final tonight.
So well, Welsh New Zealand Tests. It's the third third
of a three test series. The Kiwi Boys of David
(01:30):
Burke and Jack Fagan had to win it one Matino
Shears and my Tomo last weekend, very very close margin
last weekend though, I think it was only a point
in it. So the Welsh boys are actually done really
really well, so it could go anyway tonight. But they
had their first one ever this time last year on
New Zealand soil, so it's that the Kiwi boys can
get up and beat them again.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Now you had the speed Shares. Your boy Jack's always
a favorite at those sort of events. He got pipped
at the post. He'll be he'll be keen to set
the records tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean speeches are always a bit
hit and this anyway, but the Pirride Abram Abraham had
a good win in the Open here last night in
the speech here, and of course tomorrow Saturday, we've got
the big Open final of course tomorrow night, but also
the Zealand Shears Circuit final where the Open winner and
the circuit winner and make the New Zealand team to
(02:22):
go to the UK and France tour through July. So
plenty out for grabs. And of course this is part
of the world team selection circuit that ends next February
at Martin so selecting our New Zealand team for the
Golden Shares World Championships in March.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So anyone that's anyone's here.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, and they're really keen for that one. Roland Smith
has sort of come out of retirement, sort of getting
back into it. I see he's in. He's a tab
he's eight bucks, a hot favorite, not surprisingly for the
Open title tomorrow night, as Tyer Henderson, who of course
broke through at the Golden Shares. He's winning just about everything. David.
(03:00):
He's two dollars ten, which is sort of the odds
you were paying in your heyday.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, look to it's going well, there's no doubt about that.
He had to win at WYMO the other weekend, just
last Saturday, David Burke was seeking jack was food in
that event. I don't discount these other guys, David Burke.
Roland Smith, I mean, Rollin's eight bucks. I've never seen
him out that much, So there might be some pretty
game people putting some money on Roland, I would imagine.
But you know, and there's a bunch of them behind
(03:27):
there too, wedding for one little heckcup from those guys,
and they'll be in in like hungry dogs.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
So it's going to be really interesting to see.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, Leon Samuel's at nine dollars, he won the Golden
Shares what twenty twenty four? Yeah, yes, so he's not
out of it either by a long shot.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Not at all. And yeah, fools in their money, who
could pick it? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Well, I'm not a big punter, David, but I've got
a ta B account. I think five bucks on a
Roland Smith at eight dollars mightn't be a bad week
Friday night bet for me.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yep, yep, I would agrees.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's the most odds I think we've ever seen him pay.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Okay, hey, now, I was going to ask you what
sort of weather you've got in Tekuti for the New
Zealand Shares, But I'm probably asking the wrong question to
the wrong bloke. You're a dairy farmer there as well,
and you guys are in the depths of a terrible drought.
Really you could do with some rain, but you don't
want rain on the back of the sheep, even though
they're all undercover heading into the shares.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We take rain if we'd come today, no problem. Like, Yeah,
we're daring, and we've got a beef property too, and
that's we've been feeding out silogy. You're on the beef
property since the end of January. Two weeks time, all
our sology will be gone and we've just got to
do that to keep things ticking over for you, for
the sake of the animals.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So yeah, rain would be good.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We've had about feeding mill since Christmas, I think that's
all we've had and it's particularly dry monough.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, you're one day closer to rain, and you've got
to take a positive attitude otherwise it would do your head.
And but you've lived all your life into have you
ever known it to be the drive the slate.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh look, it is late, and it's interesting, you know,
when time's go on the market here in my lifetime,
people always say it's King Country summer safe, and we
traditionally were King Country summer safe.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
But we've sort of.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Changed roles with over the East coasts now and I
believe it'll come back again. But we don't get any
droughts up here, but we've got one at the moment.
I do hear the older guys saying the worst one
I think was seventy two or seventy four. But we'll
get through it. I remember a couple of years ago,
three years ago, it was very dry here and we
(05:36):
changed sher milkers come first to June and it was
we had no grass by the end of June with rain.
Everyone was going, what drought. You know, give us a month,
it'll turn around pretty quick. Yep.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You can grow grass on the North Island even in
the winter. Yeah, they advantage over us. South Island is
Sir David Fagan, thanks very much for your time.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Good stuff. Yes,
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