Sheza Spinner cuts it up

Cutting Association president Graeme McInnes, 53, who is from northeast of Whangarei, has been cutting horses for about eight years.

“I did miss one year a while ago,” he says.

Cutting horses is about getting a single beast from a herd of cows and getting the horse to stop it in its track.

It can be adult cows or calves, McInnes said.

The highlight of his cutting career was when he won the National Championship at Taupo in 2010.

On Thursday McInnes was riding a 13-year-old quarter horse named Sheza Spinner.

The crowds each day had been great with the stands filling up each time the event was held.