801 lambs in 8hrs: young shearer one to watch 

WITH a goal to get past 800 composite lambs shorn and just five minutes left at the end of a massive eight-hour day, a small crowd of extended family and friends gathered earlier this week to give 21-year-old shearer Caleb Morgan encouragement for the final push. He finished on 801, a shed record at Mawarra, Konongwootong. Photo: MARK RABICH.
Mark Rabich

HAVING turned 21 just after the New Year, Hamilton shearer Caleb Morgan had set himself the goal on January 15 of getting through 600 composite lambs in eight hours at Mawarra station at Konongwootong - but was forced to admit just days before the date, that his target wasn’t a realistic one.

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