OVERALL there were great line ups in all the stud sheep classes on Sunday for the first day of the Hamilton and Western District Sheep Show at the Sheepvention Rural Expo, with a number of shows running concurrently. 

Judges were David Pipkorn from Detpa Grove - a Suffolk stud in the north-west Wimmera region near Nhill, one of the Sheep Show’s convenors - Simon Thomas from the Silk Southdown stud farm in Cavendish, and Nick Cole of Cloven Hills, Camperdown.