Another of chuckwagon racing’s most stellar competitors, 2025 will be Evan’s fifteenth season as a member of the WPCA. During his time with the WPCA Evan has won the Medicine Hat Stampede, Grande Prairie Stompede and the Dewberry World Chuckwagon Races, has had four horses named to the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence and wan the WPCA’s Most Improved Driver in 2012. The 2024 season saw Evan He posted ten top ten runs including four runs that also cracked the top five. A pair of top ten overall at the Grande Prairie Stompede and the Wild West WPCA World Chuckwagon Finals in Ponoka were his best of the season.
Evan started his career with the big wagons in 2008 on the Western Chuckwagon Association (WCA) circuit where he won the WCA’s Rycroft show in 2009, was runner-up for the WCA championship, and was named the WCA’s Most Improved Driver.
Prior to driving thoroughbred chuckwagons, Evan started racing pony chariots when he was 14 and pony chuckwagons at 16. Evan is a 2nd generation driver whose uncle is former driver Ray Salmond and cousin is former driver Rod Salmond. He is the younger brother of fellow driver Wade Salmond. In the off season,
Evan is a harness maker and works in the forestry industry. He enjoys hockey and ski-dooing in the off season. Evan and his wife Adriane have two children – Rose and Cash – and make their home in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan.
