A world champion in the making, Jamie has achieved incredible success in just two full seasons on the WPCA Pro Tour. He won the opening stop of the 2024 season when he swept the Grande Prairie Stompede by winning the Ralph Vigen Memorial for Top Aggregate time, and the championship final heat. He qualified for three more championship final heats at the Strathmore Stampede, Battle of the North and at the Wild West WPCA World Chuckwagon Finals in Ponoka. He posted thirty-eight top ten runs including five day money runs and twenty runs that also placed inside the top five. He placed inside the top ten overall at seven out of ten show championships in 2024, and for the second consecutive year had a horse named to the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence.
In hist first full season with the WPCA, Jamie captured the Medicine Hat Stampede and the Battle of the Foothills, made the semi-final round at the Ponoka Stampede, and was tops in the overall aggregate at the Battle of the Foothills and the Battle of the North. He had his third horse named to the Calgary Stampede Equine Athlete of Excellence, and finished the season as the reserve world champion in one of the closest races in World Championship history.
Jamie’s career began on the CPCA circuit where he was the CPCA’s High Point Driver in 2022, the Top Rookie Driver in 2006, and twice was the CPCA’s All Around Champion, and was the Calgary Stampede’s Safety Award winner in 2015. As an outrider, Jamie was a Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider in 2009, a Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider in 2010, and the CPCA’s Top Rookie Outrider in 2002.
Jamie is the son of former driver Brian Laboucane, and is the brother-in-law of former driver B.J. Carey and outrider Mick Nolin. Jamie and his wife Dana have 2 children – Oliver and Ella, and make their home in St. Walburg, Saskatchewan.
