With some classes attracting over 20 sheep, judge Caroline Brown had her work cut out to select her prize winners.

The Southdowns triumphed at the 2025 Royal Welsh Winter Fair

at Ambleside, Church Road, Grafham, Huntingdon, Cambs PE28 0BB

Southdowns held their own once again at the English Winter Fair at the Staffordshire County Showground

Calling all members! Do you know a worthy candidate?

The Southdown Sheep Society was invited to attend the French National Southdown Show at the Sommet de L’élevage, Clermont-Ferrand in early Autumn.

1049 miles, 3 hotel rooms and 12 flocks later the judging is complete.

Cade or bottle-fed lambs can be the bane of a shepherd’s life, though for the new sheep keeper there is the wonderful novelty of training a newborn lamb to suckle from a bottle, the problem is that after 4 or 5 weeks the novelty definitely palls.

These two trophies celebrate the successes and achievements of the younger Southdown members, breeders and exhibitors.

Patrick Goldsworthy MBE Webb Ellis and Heritage Flocks