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Major Awards And Victories
- 2001: WPCA Top Rookie Outrider
- 2002: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider, Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider, Rod Glass Memorial Award
- 2004: WORLD CHAMPION OUTRIDER
- 2006: WORLD CHAMPION OUTRIDER, Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider, Ponoka Stampede Champion Outrider
- 2007: WORLD CHAMPION OUTRIDER
- 2008: Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
- 2009: WORLD CHAMPION OUTRIDER, Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
- 2010: WORLD CHAMPION OUTRIDER, Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider, Ponoka Stampede Champion Outrider
- 2011: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider, Calgary Stampede Outstanding Outrider Award, Ponoka Stampede Champion Outrider
- 2012: WPCA Top Rookie Driver, WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence – “MARKET” – Champion Right Leader
- 2013: Orville Strandquist Memorial Award (Calgary Stampede Top Rookie Driver), Calgary Stampede Equine Outfit of Excellence – “CANDY” – Champion Right Wheeler
- 2015: Ponoka Stampede Champion Outrider
- 2016: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider, Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
- 2017: Calgary Stampede Equine Outfit of Excellence – “SLICK” – Champion Left Wheeler, WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence – “SLICK” – Champion Left Wheeler
- 2019: Saskatoon World Chuckwagon Races, Battle of the North, WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence – “TEX” – Champion Right Wheeler
- 2021: Battle of the Foothills
Personal Information
The 2019 season saw Chanse break through in a major way, capturing the Saskatoon World Chuckwagon Races and Battle of the North for the first two show championship wins of his career as a chuckwagon driver. He posted 21 top ten runs, with all but 1 run placing inside the top five including 6 day money runs. He qualified for the playoff round at the Century Downs World Finals where he missed the “WINNERS ZONE” championship final on a three-way tie breaker, and his horse “TEX” was named the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence Champion Right Wheeler.
Chanse was the WPCA Top Rookie Driver in 2012, won the Calgary Stampede’s Orville Strandquist Memorial Award for Top Rookie Driver in 2013 and has had 4 horses named to the WPCA and Calgary Stampede Equine Outfit of Excellence. Chanse is a record five-time World Champion outrider, was the WPCA’s Top Rookie Outrider in 2001, and received the Rod Glass Memorial Award for the WPCA’s Most Improved Outrider in 2002.He has and outrode for four Calgary Stampede GMC Rangeland Derby Championship outfits, five Calgary Stampede Aggregate winners, and four Ponoka Stampede winners.
Chanse is a third generation World Champion whose father is former driver Mike Vigen, and his grandfather was chuckwagon legend Ralph Vigen. He is a cousin to fellow driver Rae Croteau Jr., works as a farrier and enjoys hockey, basketball, and golf in the off season. Chance and his fiancée Rochelle make their home in Okotoks, Alberta.
