Calgary Stampede Chuckwagon Drivers For Mac
Posted By admin On 09.03.20Started carts and wagons 2010 In that year he won rookie in both chariot and wagon in the APCCA. He has continued his success with 2014 finding him 4th place in the carts.In 2016 he ended up the season in 3rd place in the wagons. He has also received the Greg Smith Memorial Award, Most Sportsmanlike Driver Award and Cartier's Neckyoke Bunch award for left wheel and left cart horses of the year. During this time his family has expanded with his beautiful wife Samantha and two precious daughters Kendyl and Jayd.
Allan continues to thank his sponsors and looks forward to this coming race season. Started carts: 2013 Wagons: 2014. After following son Allan, who started in 2010, Garnet decided to race his own cart in 2013. He ended up Rookie Chariot Driver in the APCCA and officially got the bug! He decided to move to the wagon and won the 2014 Rookie Wagon Driver at the end of the season and was 11th overall in the APCCA standings. In 2016 he was 4th in the APCCA and his horse Festus was named left wheel horse of the year and presented the Leo Cartier Memorial award. 2017 started out with Garnet winning his first show-being the Alder Flats Rodeo and from there went on to have a good season ending up 10th overall.
We are thankful for good horses, good friends, and great sponsors. We look forward to the 2018 season! Started carts 1988 wagon 1993 He lives twenty kms west of hwy#1. He started traveling with his uncle in the seventies, helping him and later running his cart at shows in Sask. In 1988 he started building chariots on a bet and lucked out and is still making the Buckingham cart.
In 1991 they rolled the wagon at his uncles place while exercising, which ended his racing and he sold everything. Albert owned one horse and a cart so he bought one more horse and a trailer and went racing. In 1992 he ran two carts.
In 1993 he started with a wagon, racing in Sask.In 2006 he came out to Alberta and put in a few shows and every year got more shows in. Now he stays out for the whole summer.In 2012 he was voted for the APCCA Most Sportsmanlike Driver.He is very proud to have been picked for this award.
Started carts 2000 wagons 2002 Mike was around the race track for several years with his dad Gary before he started driving at age 20. Mike now raises and runs a lot of his own horses. He has served as a Director for the club in 2015, 2016, and 2017 and will be in 2018 as well.
He won the 2013 APCCA Most Sportsmanlike Driver Award. In 2014 he won the Greg Smith Memorial Most Sportsmanlike Award in Vermilion. In 2017 he won the Jim Becker Safe Drive Award and the APCCA High Point Wagon Championship. He would like to thank all the Sponsors, Friends, and family that help him get up and down the road. Started racing 2010 Len never owned a horse until after a couple years of sponsoring the sport, then he decided to try racing for himself. Len was the 2010 All Pro Chariot rookie, as well as the Whitecourt Champion. Len was the 2011 All Pro Chariot High Point Champion with wins in Rio Grande, Kikino and Heartlake.
Now with the addition of a few horses and a wagon, this brings new challenges. Len is married to Perle and has two children, Angela and Shane.
Len is the owner of Clearview Glass in Sylvan Lake. Started racing wagons in his rookie season 1985. He started driving horses with his father and four brothers and drove for eighteen years and winning many show championships before moving to the WPCA. He ran there for seven years before announcing his retirement from them. In 2007 he won the Calgary Stampede's Orville Strandquist Award for Top Rookie Driver. He has since been with the CPCA for 1 year and is now back with the APCCA, where he started. He has served as President, Director and is now on the draw committee and track committee and now just enjoys racing with many of his family and friends coming along to cheer him on.
He is a very proud dad of his 15 year old daughter Shelby. His left leader Sleepy was the APCCA 2017 Left Lead horse of the year and in 2016, His Right Leader Boo was chosen the top APCCA right leader of the year, winning the Leo Cartier Memorial Award named after Shane's dad. Shane ended the 2017 Season in 5th place in the standings. Started: carts and wagon 1988 Over the past 30 years Dwayne has completed over 730 successful races at more than 250 rodeos, fairs and other racing events. Over that time he has been fortunate enough to have driven both chuckwagons and chariots to show championships and consistently places in the top 10. Dwayne's horse ``Billi`` has won the 2012 and 2014 Cartier's Neck Yoke Bunch right pole horse of the year award. Rebel was the winner of the 2016 left chariot horse award.
Dwayne is currently serving as the president of the APCCA and actively promotes the association and the sport of racing both locally and internationally. In 2017 Dwayne's passion for racing was rewarded as he was the winner of the ``volunteer of the year`` as well as the ``dedicated wagon driver`` award. Started carts in 1981 wagons in 1982 Bill started driving cart when he was 18 and wagons the following year. He raced off and on for a while but his love for racing brought him back in 2004 when he started driving other peoples outfits with the APCCA. In 2008 he started driving his own cart and 2012 his own wagon. Bill placed 3rd overall with his cart in 2008. He tries to get back to the EPCCA once a year where he started his racing career over 30 yrs, ago.
Racing is a big part of Bill's life and he enjoys taking his family down the road with him. Hopefully one day they follow in his footsteps, He has met a lot of great people along the way. Bill was more involved taking on the job of show director for a three year term, which he handled well. Started cart -1983 wagon - 1985 2014 proved to be Wayne's most successful year of racing since he joined the APCCA in 1983, placing first in Alberta in wagons. He shared the Family of the Year Award with his wife Elaine, sons Dallas and Kelsey and his wife Audina and his children Kagan and Brookelynn. His accomplishments are: 2014 APCCA chuckwagon champion left hand lead horse of the year family of the year:2013 2nd place APCCA chuckwagon right hand lead horse of the year:2012 2nd place APCCA chuckwagon:2011 4th place APCCA chuckwagon.
Started racing: 2014 Kim races with the Bengtson Racing Team. 2017 marked her 4th year running her chariot in the APCCA. Her horse Jack was named left cart horse of the year and presented the Leo Cartier Memorial Award for 2017. Andileh (perhaps the horse with the most recognizable name on the track) was also in the running for right cart horse. As a team they placed 9th overall for the 2017 season with highlights being 2 day money runs at Buck Lake Stampede and the Ben Rookes Memorial Safe Award. Kim and her team are looking forward to 2018 and are thankful to the fair boards and sponsors that make it possible. Brian is a 3rd generation driver originally from Salmon Arm B.C.
He moved to Alberta in 2006 and started racing. In 2009, winning the AllPro rookie wagon award. In 2016 the team won the Rio Grande Rodeo Aggregate and dash for cash. His wife Juli and two boys, Brady and Carter, travel to as many shows as they can in the summer to make sure Brian has at least 3 people cheering him on. Brian has been sponsored by Carlan Services from Whitecourt for 6 years and can't thank them enough for their continued support. His goals for each year are to ``keep the lows high and the highs in perspective`` and avoid any and all confrontations with the barrels. Started driving: 2015 Todd started out sponsoring outfits at races in Rocky Mtn.
He got to know the drivers and each year got more involved. In 2015 he hooked his first chariot and started racing.
In 2016 Todd shared the Family of the year along with the Bell family. In 2017 Todd won Rookie of the year.
Along with driving wagon. Todd also keeps busy performing the duties of show director for Alder Flats, Rocky Mountain House, Buck Lake and High Prairie. Joining him at the races is Austin who drives a cart and Therese who judges and helps out in the infield. Todd is very thankful for past, present and future sponsors and is looking forward to many more years of summer get togethers and racing. Started carts 1984 wagons 2002 Marty is a second generation driver who followed in his dad,Garth's footsteps.
Garth was one of the original founding members in 1968. Marty has been around the races all his 50 some years of life. He has served as a director, President, measuring crew and other committees.
He has raced on every track the association has and most likely has won on it or maybe even won multiple times. Marty started driving chariots at a fun run in 1983 at age 15 and started wagons in 2002, winning rookie of the year. His biggest passion is the chariot and has been very successful at it, winning 1st and 3rd overall in the APCCA in 2017. Marty attributes most of his success and many show titles to his hard turning chariot teams. He has always been a very hard working and dedicated member of the APCCA. Started racing chariot in 1999 and Wagon in 2007. Rob grew up in Watson Sask.
And has been around chuckwagon racing all of his life. He started chariots at age 16. He moved to Lloydminster in 2003 to pursue a career as a heavy duty mechanic. When the time was right in 2007 he decided to start his own chuckwagon outfit, racing all over Alberta and Sask. In his first year he won Rookie Wagon Driver of the year and has been improving his team every year since. In 2012 his horse Roy won left pole horse of the year and in 2014 his horse Edgar was also named left pole horse of the year. In 2017 he had three show championships and placed top three in the majority of shows that year.
He moved to Ardrossan AB. In 2012 to be with his wife Kaila who he married in 2014. In 2016 they had their son Bentley and in 2018 their daughter Brinley.
Jim is a second generation driver, following in the footsteps of his father Dan O'Connor. He started racing a cart in 1990 and a wagon in 1992. He has won rookie champion in carts and wagon and won several shows such as Ponoka, Rocky Mtn. House and Buck Lake.
Jim won the Greg Smith Memorial Award for Sportsmanship at Vermilion. He has been consistently placing in the top 10 for aggregate standings and placed in the top 4 in 2017. Jim has also served as a Director and serves on numerous committees. Jim is always willing to hold or drive for others when needed.
His biggest fans are his two daughters Breanna and Kallie. Started racing 1991 Gary was born into a wagon racing family. From the time he could walk, he was racing with friends around pop can barrels with baler twine lines. At the age of thirteen, he climbed into a chariot and has been racing horses ever since.
In 1992 he was the Manitoba Chariot Champion. In the summer of 1994, he and his family moved to Alberta where Gary was the rookie wagon driver. He had the fastest track time in Grande Prairie in 2004 penalty free years in 2004 and 2007.
In 2008 he was Williams Lake Chuckwagon Champion, North Thompson Stampede Chariot Champ and Dash for Cash winner in Williams Lake and Red Deer. Gary has raced all across Canada and the States. He is looking forward to another good year of wagon racing with his family and friends. Started carts 1982.
In her first season Wanda was rookie of the year. This year marks her 37th year racing chariots, which makes her one of the longest continuous racing females along with Linda Shippelt-Hubl.
She has placed in the top 10 overall in the APCCA for most of her last 20 years. Ponoka Stampede Champion in 2006 and 2008. Married to Morris Burkard and got him into racing as well in 2009. After have some health issues in 2017, which kept her away for more than half the shows, Wanda is looking forward to a full 2018 racing season.
Started racing 1974 Linda has enjoyed chariot and chuckwagon racing for many years. She followed William and Jean Shippelt into the family sport with chariot racing and fast barrel turns. Marvin came on the scene to be hooked on racing, married Linda and was instrumental in getting them both into the ``wagon seat``. Now their two children are continuing in the family tradition, feeding working horses and racing their own miniatures in the Junior Driving Program. Always competitive,Linda finished well both in 2011 and 2012 and is looking forward to another year of chuckwagon racing. Started carts 2003 wagons 2005 Accomplishments: 2004 Peace River Pony Racing Assoc. Most Sportsmanlike Driver.
In 2005 in APCCA Rookie Chuckwagon Champion, Highway 43 Rookie Chuckwagon Champion, New Brook Best Dressed Outfit. In 2011 Buck Lake Stampede Chariot Champion, Sundre Chariot Champion. In 2013 Buck Lake Stampede Chuckwagon Champion, Sundre Chuckwagon Champion, Bruderheim Chuckwagon Champion, Red Deer consolation dash winner and the Drumheller Wagon Champion.
About Chance:2014 will be Chance's 12th consecutive year as a member of the APCCA, he has also raced with the ALLPRO's, the North West, Prince Albert and Peace clubs. He also served 2 years as a director in the Peace Club. Competing in shows from Chilliwack BC. To Unity Sask.
And as far north as Fort Nelson BC. Chance got his start in wagon racing working for fellow competitor Bruce Miners. Chance is the great grandson-law to former driver Bruce Miners.Chance and Amanda have a daughter Kloe and son Layne and make their home at Buck Creek AB. Started carts 2008 Amanda has been racing since 2008. She started out with a real reliable team the first year learning the ropes and has since acquired some new horses.
After taking a couple years off due to pregnancy she has returned to racing in 2014 to race along side her husband Chance Thomson. She has a couple of accomplishments including the Sundre Bulls and Wagons Top Chariot in 2011 and also a few best dressed awards for her eye catching colors. Amanda and Chance have a daughter Khloe, and son's Layne and Colby.
.Written by International Traveller in partnership with Destination Canada. For all intents and purposes, my father and I couldn’t be further apart on your usual travel demographic spectrum. Him being the type of grey-bearded bloke you might expect to come out of rural New South Wales, complete with farming roots and a penchant for road tripping around Australia in a 4WD, rather than suffering through an international flight. Myself on the other hand, a female millennial with a decorated passport, am largely a product of a generation best associated with Instagram, veganism, and avocado-binging. So, finding a destination that united our travel interests was a challenge at best.
But as we discussed the potential places that this daughter-dad duo could amicably explore, one stood above the rest, topped in a Stetson hat. Taking place every July in Calgary, Alberta (almost 1000 kilometres east of Vancouver), the epicentre of Canada’s oil industry plays host to what’s been billed as ‘the greatest outdoor show on earth’.
What started as a humble country fair back in 1886, organised by the Calgary and District Agricultural Society to encourage farmers and ranchers from eastern Canada to move west, has since exploded into a 10-day entertainment extravaganza, attracting over one million people from around the globe every year. Despite earning the city nicknames like ‘Cowtown’ and ‘Texas North’, it’s an event that promises to go beyond glorifying cowboy life and western culture, with a large chunk of Stampeders having never stepped foot on a farm. Pappa Jenkins, mind you, does not slot into this category. “The chuck wagons, I’m most looking forward to the chuck wagons,” he professes on our first morning in town, scoffing down free pancakes, served with a side of pulled pork. (Hot tip: As part of the Stampede festivities, the Calgary community bands together to offer a full across the city, hosted by various businesses and organisations).
“And the usual rodeo events, I imagine there’ll be some good horses,” he adds. Feigning enthusiasm for equine breeding and rodeo events that to be frank, a question mark looms over in terms of animal welfare, my focus turns to hopeful visions of broad-shouldered cowboys and overflowing beers, neither of which are of interest to father dearest. This could be a long day. Shuffling through the Stampede Park entrance alongside hundreds of others, the air is thick with mid-summer heat, brewing excitement, and the smell of deep-fried everything.
We wander down rows of food stalls, promising crispy chicken feet, clam chowder poutine, to bacon-wrapped hotdogs slathered in mac’n’cheese, past clusters of gut-busting, as well as a, where we learn about the traditions of the Plains Indians. By the time we reach the iconic Stampede Grandstand, today’s rodeo tournament is due to begin. Kicked off with a colourful First Nations dance display, the atmosphere is electric during a performance of the Canadian national anthem — complete with actual yeee-hawwwing from the audience. Surely this is some kind of world record for the greatest congregation of checked shirts and cowboy hats?
There are six main events that the Stampede’s daily rodeo comprises; ladies barrel racing, bareback, tie-down calf roping, steer wrestling, saddle bronc and bull riding. With a $2 million purse, the Stampede is the world’s richest tournament-style rodeo. There’s big money to be won, and even bigger money invested into the animals to ensure they’re prime performers. For instance, one bucking bronco is introduced over the loudspeaker as the rodeo’s “first cloned bronc”.
I may not be in the cloning business, but we can safely assume it would’ve cost a pretty penny. However, the livestock and riders are only half the production. Between charismatic commentators detailing the paternal lineage of competitors (both human and otherwise), and video clips profiling riders like celebrated war heroes, there’s also a never-ending playlist of chart-topping tunes to ensure there’s never a lull throughout the entire spectacle. Afterwards, Dad and I return to the community of food stalls to refuel on a rack of beef ribs, so sizeable they probably once belonged to a diplodocus. Partway through stuffing our sauce-covered faces we meet Bobby — a grain farmer from Lethbridge who’s also come to take time out from the Stampede frivolities, joining us on a bench seat. Living just two hours south, Bobby tells us he’s come to the Stampede every year since he was a boy, witnessing a significant growth and transformation of the event over the years.
“It’s not like them old days anymore, it was wild,” he says, tilting up his cream-coloured Stetson hat, every bit the Stampede stereotype you’d expect. “Now every little thing is under the microscope with all them animal lovers and PETA folk,” he adds.
I bite my tongue. “But there were a lot of crashes, and it’s good to see so many people interested now.” As one of the self-proclaimed “animal lovers” Bobby has mixed feelings about, I’ve certainly appreciated the presence of signs, video clips, and various other initiatives around the park that highlight the welfare of livestock on show. It’s a fine line holding true to tradition whilst catering to a 2017 audience.
With evening approaching, we return to the Grandstand for the long-awaited — aka the chuck wagon races. Much to Dad’s delight, this trademark event sees nine heats, 36 wagon drivers, 216 horses and their teams race around a track to snag a cool $1.15 million in prize money. But for all the horsemanship, skilled turns, and nail-biting finishes, it’s not even the highlight of the night. Once the arena is cleared of wagons and horses, a mammoth stage is hauled in, making way for the nightly. Well hot damn, neither of us expected this.
Like the Super Bowl halftime show on steroids, the next two hours is spent in awe as a 400-strong cast including aerial acrobats, flame-licked tightrope walkers, gymnasts stacked on bicycles, and dance troops that could rival the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, sparkle, swirl, and spring across the stage. Topped off with some colossal fireworks that ring in our ears for hours to come, we amble back to our accommodation, recalling the highlights from our first day. “You know, the wagons and horses did live up to my expectations, but I think I was most impressed by everything around the rodeo,” says Dad, surprised at even himself for having paid such attention to the goings-on off the arena. “It was just such a slick production, wasn’t it? Anyone who had no interest in rodeo could still enjoy it,” he adds. And as a someone with minimal rodeo interest, I wholeheartedly agree. Perhaps we’re not such poles apart after all.
The Details: Calgary Stampede Where is it? Stampede Park, on the south-east end of downtown Calgary, Alberta. How to get there?
Stampede Chuckwagon Races
From Vancouver, it’s a one-and-a-half-hour flight over the Rocky Mountains to Calgary, with. Alternatively, you can do the 11-hour road trip, or take the scenic route, which includes a bus transfer from Edmonton. Throughout Stampede, the city is alight with events from talent quests and outdoor parties to free pancakes. Also make time to check out the hike the, or visit the of Palaeontology in Drumheller — one of several.