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Ross Knight

Year started driving
1991
Hometown
St. Walburg, Saskatchewan
Birthday
July 8, 1966
WPCA Championship Final Heat Qualifications
9
Wins
2

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The 2022 season saw Ross experience a career defining moment when he captured one of  chuckwagon racing’s premiere events – the Ponoka Stampede. He qualified for two championship final heats at the Ponoka Stampede and at the Century Downs “WINNERS ZONE” Championship. 2022 saw Ross post 17 top ten runs, including 5 runs that cracked the top five, and had top ten overall finishes at four WPCA show championships over the course of the season.

Ross had a major breakthrough on the WPCA Pro Tour in 2018 when he won the Battle of the North. He has twice been a semi-finalist at the Ponoka Stampede, twice made the playoff round for the Century Downs “WINNERS ZONE” Championship, was a semi-finalist at the Calgary Stampede in 2019 the same year he had a horse named to the Calgary Stampede Equine Outfit of Excellence. Prior to running on the WPCA Pro Tour, Ross competed for many years on the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) circuit where he has won three career CPCA show championships, received the CPCA’s Most Sportsmanlike Driver Award in 1994, and was a finalist for the championship final heat for the CPCA Championship in 2005.

As an outrider Ross outrode for three Calgary Stampede Aggregate winners and is a three–time CPCA Champion Outrider. Ross is the father of World Champion Outrider Casey Knight, younger brother to former driver Jim Knight and cousin to driver Wayne Knight. Ross and his wife Gail have two children – Carlee and Casey, and make their home in St. Walburg, Saskatchewan.

World Professional Standings

2023
11th
2022
12th
2021
CPCA Member
2020
No Race Season
2019
8th
2018
22nd
2017
26th
2016
32nd
2015
22nd
2014
28th
2013
33rd
2012
CPCA Member
2011
CPCA Member
2010
CPCA Member
2009
CPCA Member
2008
CPCA Member
2007
CPCA Member
2006
CPCA Member
2005
CPCA Member
2004
CPCA Member
2003
CPCA Member
2002
CPCA Member
2001
CPCA Member
2000
CPCA Member
1999
CPCA Member
1998
CPCA Member
1997
CPCA Member
1996
CPCA Member
1995
CPCA Member
1994
NPCA Member
1993
NPCA Member
1992
NPCA Member - Rookie Season

Major Awards And Victories

1986
NPCA Champion Outrider
1987
NPCA Champion Outrider
1994
Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider, NPCA Champion Outrider
1995
Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
1997
Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
2018
Battle of the North
2019
Calgary Stampede Equine Outfit of Excellence- "LOU" - Champion Right Wheeler
2022
Ponoka Stampede
2023
Strathmore Stampede, Calgary Stampede Equine Athlete of Excellence - "WIDGET" - Champion Right Wheeler

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