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Emily Chamelin was still a teenager when she took up sheep shearing. She’d convinced her parents to let her raise a few sheep on the family dairy farm in Maryland, but finding someone to shear them ...

In the blades shearing final, South Canterbury shearers Allan Oldfield and Tony Dobbs secured victory in a tense contest against South Africa. The competition unfolded like a classic trans-Tasman ...