Possible Clues:

• Docile followers
• Ram or lamb
• People likely to follow Rider Haggard's book on record once
• Ovine animals
• - may safely graze (Bach)
• Bighorn, for one
• Its coat is 100% wool
• They could be said to have to endure 24 across
• Cotswold
• One lacking initiative (but better than a goat?)