Chance Flad Wins The 2025 Wainwright Stampede

2025 Wainwright Stampede Champions
Hall & Company Professional Chartered Accountants Outfit
(L-R): Driver Chance Flad, Outrider Trey MacGillivray, Wainwright Stampede President Paul Harvey Presenting,
Miss Wainwright Stampede Ashley Torpe Presenting, Outrider Nolan Cameron
Photo By Billy Melville

Inclement weather that began on Friday made for unsafe racetrack conditions that did not improve in time for Sunday night racing in Wainwright, thus shortening the 2025 Wainwright Stampede to a two-day aggregate competition. Chance Flad, driving the Hall & Company Professional Chartered Accountants Outfit, and along with outriders Nolan Cameron and Trey MacGillivray, captured the 2025 Wainwright Stampede championship after posting the best two-day aggregate time of 2:11.16. It’s Flad’s first career victory on the WPCA Pro Tour who ran his first full season on the professional chuckwagon circuit in 2019.

Despite the weather shortened event, Flad’s performance in Wainwright was rock solid as he placed fourth overall on Friday and backed it up with a second place run on Saturday. His aggregate time was 48 one-hundredths of a second faster than Kris Molle, who won the Wainwright Stampede in 2018 when the race meet was part of the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) schedule. Rae Croteau Jr. placed third, 1.19 seconds behind the 2025 Champion Chance Flad, with Jason Glass and Evan Salmond slightly behind Rae Croteau’s time to complete the top five overall after two runs.

The WPCA Pro Tour presented by GMC now moves into Ponoka for the Ponoka Stampede Championship starting on Thursday, June 26, 2025. Day 1 of the Ponoka Stampede can be heard on WPCA Radio starting 7:30pm Mountain time on 96.5 The Ranch, or streaming options are available through the WPCA Website at wpca.com, iHeart Radio website/app or the Radioplayer Canada website/app.

Billy Melville