The 31-year-old Brown, based in Bunbury, south of Perth, Western Australia, but raised in Napier, shore 497 Merino ewes in eight hours in a woolshed near Kojonup on Saturday.
At just under 58 seconds a sheep it was 31 more than the previous record of 466 ewes set by fellow Kiwi Cartwright Terry in a two-stand record with brother Michael James Terry in 2003, also in West Australia.
It was also just 33 shy of NZ shearer Stacey Te Huia’s nine-hour record of 530 set in New South Wales four years ago and regarded as one of the greatest tally shears in Australian woolshed history.
The standard of shearing was monitored by an international panel of four judges appointed by the World Sheep Shearing Records Society, headed by northern Hawke’s Bay farmer Bart Hadfield.
