Peter Blanchard, from the Savernake Suffolk stud in Marlborough, Wiltshire, has bought two Suffolk ram lambs - one from Eric Ross's Collie Hills stud, at Hakataramea, and the other from Bruce Rapley's Goldstream stud at Otorohanga.
Mr Blanchard came to New Zealand in December last year visiting various studs and looking for Suffolk rams.
In England, sheep were lambed inside, with most of the ewes assisted during lambing, and he wanted to move towards the New Zealand way of farming Suffolks.
New Zealand Suffolks were also a different type of sheep to their English counterparts, Mr Ross said.
Mr Blanchard had used New Zealand genetics previously, although not from Collie Hills.
While New Zealand semen had been used in Suffolks in England, Mr Ross was not aware of any Suffolk sheep being exported there previously.
Mr Blanchard, who decided he wanted a Collie Hills ram after visiting the property, had not seen the lamb until it arrived in England and he was happy with his purchase.
The lamb - Collie Hills 243-09 - was sired by a ram from the Courtenay stud in Canterbury and was in quarantine for two months.
Semen will be sold from it in England.
The Suffolk evolved from the mating of Norfolk Horn ewes with Southdown rams in the Bury St Edmunds area, which is in the county of Suffolk.
They were originally known as Southdown Norfolks, or locally as "black faces".
In 1913, one ram and six ewes were imported into Canterbury by George Gould.
Mr Ross established the Collie Hills Suffolk stud in 1981, alongside a Corriedale sheep stud established by his late father, Bill Ross, in the mid-1950s.
Collie Hills has previously exported both Corriedales and Suffolks to South America.
Like his father before him, Mr Ross has a passion for stud breeding.
While it had been a good ram selling season, the same could not be said for the weather.
His hill country was the driest he had ever seen - "unbelievable" - and while recent rain had greened things up and filled dams and streams, Mr Ross wished the rain had come three months earlier.
