North Canterbury News: July 08, 2021
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Clydesdales star attraction<br />
By SHELLEY TOPP<br />
NEWS<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>July</strong> 8, <strong>2021</strong><br />
MASTER BUILDER<br />
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Two Clydesdale teams were the star<br />
attractions on day one of two ploughing<br />
contests held in <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> last<br />
weekend.<br />
Saturday’s event was hosted by the<br />
Oxford Working Men’s Club’s ploughing<br />
section and Sunday’s event was hosted<br />
by the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> Ploughing<br />
Match Association.<br />
Both events were held at Allen<br />
Winter’s farm in Swannanoa.<br />
‘‘The events were held with the help of<br />
along list of sponsors for which were<br />
very grateful,’’ he said.<br />
The two Clydesdale teams in the<br />
limelight on Saturday included this<br />
year’s recent Horse Ploughing<br />
Championship winners John and<br />
Sharon Chynoweth competing with their<br />
Clydesdales Blue and Flash.<br />
Their opposing team at Saturday’s<br />
event included John Booth, owner of the<br />
Dayboo Clydesdale Stud, in Ashburton,<br />
and Bruce Johnson, also of Ashburton,<br />
with Clydesdales, Sam and Anja.<br />
The two ploughmen chosen during the<br />
two days to compete at the New Zealand<br />
Ploughing Championships, in Blenheim,<br />
next May were Simon Reed, who will<br />
represent the Oxford Workingmen’s<br />
Club and Ken Readman, of<br />
Christchurch, who will represent the<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> Ploughing Match<br />
Association.<br />
Ken, who is also secretary/treasurer<br />
for the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> Ploughing<br />
Match Association said the organisers of<br />
both events were happy that the heavy<br />
rain earlier in the week had stayed away<br />
for the weekend events and conditions<br />
for ploughing were good on both days<br />
after the heavy frosts had thawed.<br />
Working hard ... John and Sharon<br />
Chynoweth, of Oxford, ploughing with their<br />
Clydesdales Blue and Flash.<br />
Lining up ... Robert Weavers, of Geraldine, ploughing on his David Brown tractor during<br />
the first day of the twoday ploughing match at Allen Winter’s farm in Swannanoa last<br />
Saturday afternoon.<br />
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