JUDGING the Castle Douglas Galloway Society pre-sale show on February 16-17 for the first time are Sarah and Jason Wareham who are making an almost 1,000 mile round trip from their East Sussex farm.

Sarah, the third generation to farm the 350-acre Little Tottingworth, Broadoak, Heathfield, overlooking the beautiful High Weald, has been running the farm with a successful farm shop and cafe for more than 25 years.

With 250 acres of pasture and around 100 acres of ancient woodland, the farm was bought by Sarah’s grandparents Dennis and Ruby Browning in 1957 and Sarah runs the farm with her brother Michael and husband Jason.

Jason and Sarah bought their first Galloway in 2008 and their passion for the breed has now extended into a herd of 30 pedigree Galloways under the Wareham’s prefix which run alongside another 70 commercial cows at Tottingworth. The farm carries around 300 head of cattle as well as a flock of 280 breeding ewes.

The society show in Castle Douglas starts on the Thursday at 12 noon with the following day seeing Parade of Bulls at 10am and sale at 11am in No 2 sale ring. Society secretary Dorothy Goldie says they have an increased number of entries - the first time in many years entries have been over 100.