Stacey Te Huia shears a sheep during his unsuccessful shearing world record attempt at Te Hape Station near Bennydale.

Te Kuiti shearer Stacey Te Huia will be making his third attempt at breaking the world nine-hour strong wool ewe-shearing record in early January.

Regarded as the Mt Everest of records in shearing sports, Te Huia will have to shear more than 721 sheep to break the current record set by Hawke's Bay shearer Rodney Sutton at Mangapehi in the King Country in 2007.

The record attempt will take place at Mangarata-Taratahi Ag Training Centre, Te Ore Ore, just northeast of Masterton.

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Two attempts on the record, in 2013 and last year, were called off during the day as the tallies fell behind the run-by-run targets. In the 2013 attempt, Te Huia carried-on to shear a personal best shed tally of 703.

He bounced from the second miss last January by setting a merino ewes record of 530 in nine hours four weeks later near Dubbo, NSW.

Te Huia's attempt is one of four world record bids from New Zealand shearers between Christmas and January.

The vacant three-stand strongwool ewes record over eight hours will be attempted at Big Hill Station west of Hastings, on December 22, by Hawke's Bay shearers Errol and nephew Kalin Chrystal and Gisborne shearer Shelford Wilcox.

South Island-based shearers Ringakaha Paewai, Aidan Copp and Peter-Lee Ratima will attempt the three-stand eight-hour strongwool lambs record of 1784, which was set in January 1999. This record will take place in King Country on January 7.

Herlihy brothers Paul, Mark, Craig, Tim, Dean and Michael will also attempt the vacant six-stand lambs record for eight hours at Paparatu Station, at Manutuke, near Gisborne on January 26.