First Place:  2

Entry number: 567

Exhibitor: Kingsflock

State: MD

Sheep name/number: 220

Breed: Hampshire

Website: www.kingshowlambs.com

2 is the longer sided ewe with the most level hip in the class.  Although the rear shot is nearly unacceptable for placing as we cannot see feet structure nor base width appropriately, we deem her to be one of the more structurally correct ewes.  She appears to give up some rib shape and dimension to the natural colored ewe, but is noticeably squarer when viewed from the side.

Second Place:  1

Entry number: 564

Exhibitor: EmsoffLambs

State: CA

Sheep name/number: 198

Breed: Suffolk X

Website: www.emsofflivestockcompany.com

1 comes into a middle pair where she has a modest advantage in size against what appears to be the youngest lamb in the class.  Furthermore, she appears wider in her base set when viewed from behind with more appropriate set to the rear legs.

Third Place:  4

Entry number: 584

4 would appear to be the clean fronted lamb in the class with proportionately more attractive length of neck, but places third as she is in the pair of lambs that has the most structural flaws with her hocks appearing to turn in, being down in her pasterns, and also appearing to be the narrower topped lamb in the middle pair.

Levelness of hip and front leg structure place 4 over 3 in the bottom pair. 4 is exaggerated in the set to her pastern giving me some unease in her structure at this young age.  Still I placed her over what is probably the heaviest muscled ewe in the class.

Fourth Place:  3

Entry number: 579

3 is the steepest hipped and that profile view appears to show her as "buck kneed."  (This may be slight, due to a picture pose, but if you follow the front leg down, the knee is definitely coming forward from the attachment of the front leg to the shoulder.)  I find this fault and her hip to make her the most undesirable ewe lamb of the four and placed her last.