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The World Professional Chuckwagon Association (WPCA) is an association made up of professional cowboys and business people with an interest in preserving western heritage and providing family entertainment. The WPCA promotes and presents chuckwagon racing as a professional sport throughout North America and the world. The WPCA is a close-knit ...
Chuckwagon racing is an equestrian rodeo sport in which drivers in a chuckwagon led by a team of Thoroughbred horses race around a track.. The sport is most popular in the Prairie Provinces of Canada, where the World Professional Chuckwagon Association and the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association are the two major racing circuits.
In 2006 he received the World Professional Chuckwagon Association's highest annual honor - the WPCA Chuckwagon Person of the Year. 2009 would be Harden's most successful year when he captured chuckwagon racing's two richest events when he won the Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby [2] and Edmonton's Chuckwagon Derby, becoming just the third ...
Kelly Sutherland, nicknamed "The King", [1] (born October 29, 1951) is a professional rodeo competitor in chuckwagon racing. He is a 12-time world champion of the World Professional Chuckwagon Association and 12-time winner at the Calgary Stampede. [2]
Now, chuckwagon cooks travel the nation, competing and sharing the history of their craft, including at CFD. Friends of the Patricks, Leon and Cristy Fischer, spent Thursday afternoon testing ...
Originally called the Grande Prairie Chuckwagon Stompede, the event was first held in 1977. [1] By 2014, the event had welcomed its millionth visitor, and reported attendance in excess of 50,000. [2] The chuckwagon races are the opening event of the World Professional Chuckwagon Association season. [3] [4] 2020 saw the Stompede go on hiatus ...
Troy Dorchester (born August 21, 1970) is a Canadian professional chuckwagon racer. He is the only chuckwagon driver to have won chuckwagon racing's "Triple Crown" consisting of the Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby, the Calgary Stampede Aggregate Title and the Ponoka Stampede in a single year. He accomplished the feat in 2012.
Fraser grew up in Grande Prairie, Alberta, the son of Joan (née Dorchester) and step-son to former World and Calgary Stampede Champion Chuckwagon Driver Dave Lewis.He started his chuckwagon racing career as an outrider when he was 16 in 1976, and began driving when he was 22 in 1982 on the World Professional Chuckwagon Association (WPCA) circuit.