As one of the most popular drivers in professional chuckwagon racing, 2025 will be Preston’s second full season on the WPCA Pro Tour. As a permit driver in 2024, Preston posted eighteen top ten runs including five runs that cracked the top five. Top ten overall finishes at the Calgary Stampede and the Battle of the Foothills in High River were his best of the year.
The 2023 season saw Preston win the dash for cash at his hometown show at the Frog Lake First Nation on the CPCA Circuit, and have a horse named to the CPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence. He also made the finals at the CPCA’s North Battleford show, and had 25 top ten runs including seven first place runs and eight other runs that also cracked the top five.
Preston began his career on the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) circuit in 2018, and ran his first race in North Battleford. He won three show during his time with the CPCA at the Meadow Lake Stampede in 2021, the Wainwright Stampede in 2022, and the Little Pine Days of Thunder in 2023. and won the dash for cash at his hometown show at the Frog Lake First Nation also in 2023. He has had two horses named to the CPCA’s Equine Outfit of Excellence, and was named the CPCA’s Most Improved Driver in 2022 the same year he was a finalist in the championship dash for the overall CPCA Championship.
Preston works as a Journeyman Red Seal Plummer and Pipefitter for PKP Mechanical in the off season. He enjoys hunting and travelling and makes his home on the Frog Lake First Nation in Alberta.
