First Place:  2

Entry number: 907

Exhibitor: lm1668

State: OH

Website: www.meyersshowlambs.com

2 is simply the best combination of muscle and market readiness. Ideally the class winner could be smoother about the point of his shoulder and tie better from his neck to shoulder to forerib. However with these faults aside in the intitial pair, he is heavier and more uniform in his condition, opens up with more width and shape over his rack, and should easily rail the carcass with the largest leg score in the class.

Second Place:  3

Entry number: 942

Exhibitor: thadlo

Sheep name/number: ewe #1

Breed: Hampshire X

Sure the ewe lamb is leveler out of her dock, longer necked and cleaner fronted, unfortunately she is barer finished and lighter muscled so she is second.

Still in a middle pair with notable differences, I prefer the higher cutability ewe primarily because of her added width and squareness of top, specifically over her loin edges, wider set to her pins and plumpness of lower leg.

Third Place:  1

Entry number: 886

Some may prefer the added smoothness of finish and length and extension of 1, however in reality, he is the lightest muscled, heaviest conditioned lamb in the class that lacks the true muscle shape of his contemporaries.

Yet in the concluding pair he is much better balanced and more structurally correct than the dark fibered wether. He is longer necked, better in his rib design, longer and leveler out of his dock and simply more eye appealing.

Fourth Place:  4

Entry number: 950

There is no doubt that the blue wether is more shapely over his rack and through the lower third of his leg, but this is where his advantages end as he is the least structurally correct lamb that rolls excessively in his dock, is a little down in his pasterns, round out of his shoulder and pinches and drops over his loin edges. In addition to reading too raw in his condition, the added wool above his hocks makes him appear more blown out in his hocks than he actually is.