2024 will forever be a memorable season for Jason. He won his second Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby, captured both the Century Downs WINNERS’ ZONE Series and the Wild West WPCA World Chuckwagon Finals Aggregate championship at the season ending stop in Ponoka, and his horse “CHASKA” was named the Champion Right Leader on both the WPCA Pro Tour and at the Calgary Stampede. Jason recorded a remarkable thirty-eight top ten runs including eight first place runs, one of which was a track record run at the Calgary Stampede, and twenty runs that also cracked the top five. He qualified for four championship final heats at the Grande Prairie Stompede, Calgary Stampede, Battle of the North, and the Wild West WPCA World Chuckwagon Finals, and placed in the top ten overall at eight out of ten shows in 2024.
Jason is one of chuckwagon racing’s all-time most accomplished competitors. He is a four-time World Champion Chuckwagon Driver, twice a Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Driver, four times he was the Calgary Stampede Aggregate winner, and was the champion at the 1998 Ponoka Stampede. He is a three-time winner of the WPCA Clean Driver Award, has had ten horses named to the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence and five named to the Calgary Stampede’s Equine Athlete of Excellence. Jason received the Calgary Stampede’s prestigious Guy Weadick Award in 2010, won four Calgary Stampede Safe Drive Awards for least penalized driver, was the WPCA’s Top Rookie Driver in 1989, Top Rookie Outrider in 1987, and received the WPCA’s Most Improved Chuckwagon Outfit Award in 1990. As an outrider, Jason won two Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Championships, two Calgary Stampede Aggregate titles, was the WPCA Top Rookie Outrider in 1987 and was WPCA’s Most Improved Outrider in 1988.
Jason is a 4th generation champion chuckwagon driver, whose father Tom Glass, grandfather Ronnie Glass, and great-grandfather Tom Lauder are some of the greatest names the sport has ever known. Jason and his wife Brienne have two children – Bodie Kenneth and Steele Iris – make their home in High River, Alberta.
