A measly winning margin of 0.062 points enabled Samuels to retain his New Zealand Lamb Shearing Championships title at the Mackenzie A&P Show in Fairlie on Monday.
He finished a 20-lambs final 37 seconds clear of South Island-based English shearer Alex Clapham.
The big threat came from Pleasant Point contractor Ant Frew who had the best quality points and went within two seconds of claiming the win.
The win was the seventh of the season for Samuels.
He holds six national titles across four wool types, including second-shear events the Golden Shears and New Zealand Shears Open titles in the North Island and the Otago Shears and Southern Shears Open titles in the South, the New Zealand Merino Shears (finewool), New Zealand Spring Shears (long wool), and the lambs title won in both 2023 and 2024.
At the New Zealand Shears Open final in Te Kuiti on Saturday night, he placed third in the New Zealand Shears Circuit final and the New Zealand Shears Open final.
He was also in the South Island team which won the Inter-Island shearing and woolhandling competition in Te Kuiti.
