Champion New Zealand shearer Sacha Bond has shorn 720 lambs in 9-hours at Pāmu farm's Centre Hill Station near Te Anau yesterday (19 Dec) to take out the women's strong wool lambs world record. 

Until yesterday the world record was held by 4-time world record holder and Gore champion shearer Megan Whitehead, who shore 661 lambs at Gore in January 2021.

Ironically Whitehead, who just 4-days earlier smashed the 8-hour women's duo lambs world record in Gore with her cousin Hannah McCall, was penning up for Bond's successful attempt.

Sacha Bond. Photo: Supplied

The 30-year-old King Country shearer is no stranger to world records, having already set a women's world record for the 8-hour strong wool lambs at Fairlight Station on the 4th February this year.

Bond intends to return to Centre Hill Station again on 14th February for another world record attempt, this time for the prestigious 9-hour Strong Wool Ewe Shearing record.

If successful, Bond will become the first person to ever hold both 9-hour world records.