A 4th generation wagon man, Chance has won two shows on the WPCA Pro Tour at The Battle of the North and the Strathmore Stampede, and six shows on the CPCA circuit between 2012 and 2019. The 2024 season saw Chance post six top ten runs, including three runs that placed inside the top five. Top ten overall finishes at the Medicine Hat Stampede and Ponoka Stampede were his best of the season.
Chance started his career with on the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) circuit and was the CPCA’s Top Rookie Driver in 2003. He moved to the WPCA Pro Tour for seven years where he was the WPCA Top Rookie Driver in 2006, received the WPCA Most Improved Driver Award in 2008 the same year he won his first show championship at the Battle of the North. He had a horse named to the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence in 2011, and was an outrider on his father Buddy’s 2003 Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Championship outfit.
Chance is the son of chuckwagon legend Buddy Bensmiller and whose grandfathers are former Calgary Stampede finalists Allan Bensmiller and Alan Smith, and his great-grandfather Wesley Walter Smith drove wagons back in the 1940’s His brothers are chuckwagon drivers Kurt and Dave Bensmiller, is the brother-in-law of driver Vern Nolin, and uncle to Cruise Bensmiller. Chance and his wife Karley have 4 children – Cash, Quinn, Ace and Swayze, and make their home in Dewberry, Alberta.
