Now For Something Completely Different

[fern]

Well folks you have heard of the Running of the Bulls.........

Now New Zealand has done the Running of the Sheep.

This was done as part of the opening day for the 21st New Zealand Shearing Championships where "David Fagan successfully defended his national title, winning the New Zealand Open Shearing Championship Final shearing 20 sheep in a time of 13.52.06 minutes."
Each of the following has smiliar and also different info on the event.

http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/nz_shearin...ss&Tcat=Farming
and http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0603/S00147.htm and
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cf...bjectid=3558026