One of the hottest chuckwagon driver’s the sport has ever seen the past two years, Chanse captured his second consecutive World Championship as a chuckwagon driver. In another incredible season, including the Calgary Stampede, Chanse had sixteen first place runs and finished in the top 10 in 40 out of 50 running days. He qualified for six Championship final heats, finished first in the aggregate at six out of ten shows, and won four show titles at the Medicine Hat Stampede, the Battle of the Foothills, the Strathmore Stampede and the Battle of the Rockies. His horse “GRAYSON” was named the Champion Left Leader on both the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence and the Calgary Stampede Equine Athlete of Excellence.
During chuckwagon racing’s centennial celebration of 1923, Chanse made history by sweeping all 6 first place day monies in a dominating performance at the Ponoka Stampede, breaking a 62 year record in the process of 5 set by the legendary driver Dale Flett at the Calgary Stampede in 1962.
Chanse was the WPCA Top Rookie Driver in 2012, won the Calgary Stampede’s Orville Strandquist Memorial Award in 2013, has had six horses named to the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence., and five horses named to the Calgary Stampede’s Calgary Stampede Equine Athlete of Excellence. Chanse is a five-time World Champion outrider, was the WPCA’s Top Rookie Outrider in 2001, and was the WPCA’s Most Improved Outrider in 2002. He has outrode for four Calgary Stampede COWBOYS Rangeland Derby Championship outfits, five Calgary Stampede Aggregate winners, and four Ponoka Stampede winners. Chanse is a third generation World Champion whose father is former driver Mike Vigen, and his grandfather was chuckwagon legend Ralph Vigen. He is a cousin to fellow driver Rae Croteau Jr., works as an oilfield salesman and enjoys hockey, basketball, and golf in the off season. Chance and his wife Brie make their home in Calgary, Alberta.
