Shearing Sheep in Australia

My Bushlady wife Elysee getting ready to shear

Before and after

While staying at the Avalanche Homestead we learned the art of shearing the sheep, of which Frank Biddle has about 1500. A fellow named Jacky Howe, in 1892, hand sheared 321 sheep in 7 hours and forty minutes, a record. That's one sheep every 1.4 minutes. He must have had forearms like Popeye! Not a man to arm wrestle with! I would like to know if that record still stands for manual shearing.