Hardwick shepherds exhibit their best rams at the annual Keswick Tup Fair which, since the 1840s has been held in the Lake District town in May.
Judges are looking for the best examples of the local Herdwick breed with their hoar-frost white face and legs and distinctive slate blue fleece, hand painted with red ochre which makes them easily visible in the distant Cumbrian fells.
Stanley Jackson gets his ram standing correctly for the official pictures after it won the Edmondson Cup. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
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