The wave of Hawke's Bay successes across the shearing boards lately is not limited just to the shearers and the word is out: don't forget the rousies.
And so it is that we recognise the achievements of 27-year-old Krystal Wilson, who hails from Wairoa and Flaxmere, and who showed her versatility by winning two senior woolhandling titles in Southland last weekend.
On Friday, she won the crossbred full wool final at Lumsden and, 24 hours later, she won the national crossbred title in her class at Winton.
As a double-win, it mirrored the more glamourised effort of Napier shearer John Kirkpatrick, who won the open shearing finals at both events.
It's at least the fourth time he has completed the double.
That he was making it five wins in five finals this season was another factor, which no doubt already has the TAB looking at some short odds for the sport's biggest event, the Golden Shears Open, with still a month before bookmakers start listing the odds.
Wilson's name doesn't crop up in a lot of finals but she has picked off at least one other biggie, the senior title at the New Zealand Merino Championships 15 months ago in Alexandra, where she works for large-scale contractors Peter and Elsie (originally from Hawke's Bay) Lyon.
Being all in first division competitions, the three wins mean she will now be promoted to open class where things start to get a bit more serious.
While she is not compelled to go up until the start of next season, there is an incentive now, depending on her own ambitions regarding sport over work.
The Golden Shears in Masterton from March 3-5 constitute the first of 10 rounds in the qualifying series to find two New Zealand representatives for the next world championships at the Golden Shears next year.
The second round will be at the New Zealand Championships in Te Kuiti and the remaining eight will be next season.
The trials culminate in a selection final at the 2012 Southern Shears in Gore and the first two will defend the team's title won last July by Taihape school teacher Sheree Alabaster and Te Awamutu's Keryn Herbert in Wales and will also try to win back the individual title.
If the 2009-2010 qualifying series leading up to their selection is anything to go by, then the open class is certainly going to add something to the spectacle that wool handling has become at many shows, particularly at the full wool competitions.
This highlights just how far wool handling has come, particularly in the 15 years since Patrick Shelford won the first world title in Masterton in 1996.
There are four established competitions where the open-class winner gets $1000 or more, and there are opportunities of selection in other New Zealand teams, particularly the annual home-and-away transtasman matches.
Wool pressing competitions have also come some way, although they are still held at just two competitions; the Otago championships in Balclutha each year and the Golden Shears.
This year marks 25 years since pressing was added to the programme.
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