David and Jack Howells win historic World Sheep Dog Trial double

David Howells and Wyverne Pip took the senior world title in the Scottish Borders, then Jack Morgan Howells and Cydros Boss completed a father-and-son championship double.

Edited by Scoop · 5 minute read · 21 September 2026

The last sheep had crossed the line, but the World Trial still had one unusually neat result to reveal. A Welsh father and son had each won a world title on the same Scottish Borders farm—with two different dogs and two very different finals.

The official International Sheep Dog Society senior scoreboard records David Howells and Wyverne Pip in first place in Sunday’s World Trial final. The Young Handler final puts Jack Morgan Howells and Cydros Boss first in their competition.

FarmingUK’s report published on Monday describes them as the first parent and child to win the senior and Young Handler titles at the same World Trial. The official scoreboards confirm the two victories; the historical first is attributed to FarmingUK’s event report.

David Howells and Wyverne Pip won the senior final

The senior final was held at Huntington Farm near Lauder on 20 September. The official scoreboard lists David Howells and Wyverne Pip first with a score of 671, ahead of Ireland’s Dean McAuley and Joe on 665. Angie Driscoll and Kinloch Carlos placed third with 611.

Those numbers are the scoreboard’s final totals, not a simple points-for-speed table. Sheepdog trials assess how accurately a handler and dog move sheep through a prescribed course, with the final demanding a longer sequence than an ordinary qualifying run.

FarmingUK reports that the Sunday final was contested by the 16 highest-pointed dogs of the week. Its account also says McAuley was the only handler to qualify two dogs for the final, finishing fifth with Jack as well as second with Joe.

Jack Morgan Howells and Cydros Boss completed the double

The Young Handler final took place on the same day. The official ISDS result places Jack Morgan Howells and Cydros Boss first with 174, followed by Nahuel Yaben Silva and Verusa Del Templao on 162, with Joren De Bruycker and Dot third on 135.

FarmingUK identifies Jack as David’s 19-year-old son and says the two victories created the first senior-and-Young-Handler parent-child double at one World Trial. That is the distinction that turns two winning runs into one unusually memorable result.

It is also important not to blur the teams. David won with Wyverne Pip; Jack won with Cydros Boss. The dogs are not interchangeable supporting characters in the family story—they are half of each competitive partnership.

A world championship on a working farm

The ISDS event schedule shows the trial running from 16 to 20 September at Huntington Farm, with qualifying across three fields before Saturday’s semi-finals and Sunday’s senior and Young Handler finals.

The event site described the venue as a working family farm in the Scottish Borders. FarmingUK reports that fields normally used for barley were adapted for the competition and that handlers and dogs came from 34 nations. The same report says 300 competitors entered the senior field.

That setting mattered to organisers because the Borders are closely associated with the development of the border collie. FarmingUK quotes World Trial chair Fiona McMillan calling the event a homecoming for the breed; that is an organiser’s interpretation of the location, not a claim that every modern border collie traces to this single place.

Wales collected more than two titles

The Howells victories were the centrepiece, but they were not Wales’s only results. FarmingUK reports that Kevin Evans won the inaugural World Trial Brace competition with Kemi Ids and Valley View Dan, a format in which one handler works two dogs. Wales also supplied the third-placed senior partnership through Angie Driscoll and Kinloch Carlos.

Germany won the team competition, with France second and Scotland third, according to the same event report. Those results give the meeting a wider frame: the father-and-son double happened inside a genuinely international field rather than a domestic championship wearing a larger badge.

For readers meeting sheepdog trialling through this result, the simplest way into the sport is to watch the partnership rather than only the handler. The line taken by the sheep, the dog’s distance and balance, and the timing of each instruction are all part of the run. A title belongs to the team on the field.

Why this result travelled beyond trialling circles

The story has four names that make it unusually easy to remember: David and Jack Howells, Wyverne Pip and Cydros Boss. It also has a clean sporting shape—two related handlers, two dogs, two finals and one world championship weekend.

That does not mean the younger title is simply an appendix to the senior win. Jack and Boss topped their own official final, just as David and Pip topped theirs. The family connection joins the stories; it does not replace either competitive result.

The final scoreboards are now the durable record. What they capture in separate tables is what made Monday’s reporting compelling in one sentence: on the World Trial’s closing day, two Welsh teams from the same family left Huntington Farm as world champions.

Sources and update record

Published 21 September 2026. The official senior final scoreboard, Young Handler final scoreboard, ISDS event schedule and FarmingUK report were checked shortly after midday BST. Final placements and scores come from the official scoreboards; the parent-child historical first, competitor count, age and event colour are attributed to FarmingUK. The illustration is conceptual and does not depict the real dogs, handlers or a specific competition moment.