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Evan Salmond

Year started driving
2008
Hometown
Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan
Birthday
July 9, 1981
WPCA Championship Final Heat Qualifications
11
Wins
2

Get to Know More About the Driver

Another of chuckwagon racing’s toughest competitors, Evan’s 2022 season was highlighted by a victory at the Dewberry World Chuckwagon Races.  He posted fourteen top ten runs including a day money run at the Dewberry World Chuckwagon Races and four runs that also cracked the top five. The win at Dewberry and a ninth place overall finsh at the Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby were his best of the season.

Evan made three consecutive qualifications into the semi-final round, has won three times on the WPCA Pro Tour, has had four horses named to the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence and won the Herman Flad Memorial Award for the WPCA’s Most Improved Driver in 2012.

Evan started his career in 2008 on the Western Chuckwagon Association (WCA) circuit where he won the WCA’s Rycroft show in 2009, was runner-up for the WCA championship, and was named the WCA’s Most Improved Driver.

Prior to driving big chuckwagons, Evan started racing pony chariots when he was 14 and pony chuckwagons at 16. Evan is a 2nd generation driver whose uncle is former driver Ray Salmond and cousin is former driver Rod Salmond. He is the younger brother of fellow driver Wade Salmond. In the off season,

Evan is a harness maker and works in the forestry industry. He enjoys hockey and ski-dooing in the off season. Evan and his wife Adriane have two children – Rose and Cash – and make their home in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan.

World Professional Standings

2023
3rd
2022
20th
2021
9th
2020
No Race Season
2019
13th
2018
4th
2017
11th
2016
19th
2015
5th
2014
14th
2013
25th
2012
3rd
2011
31st
2010
29th
2009
WCA Member
2008
WCA Member – Rookie Season

Major Awards And Victories

2012
Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede, Herman Flad Memorial Award (Most Improved Driver), WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence - "D.J" - Champion Right Wheeler
2015
WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence - "COMET" - Champion Left Leader
2017
WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence - "ZIP" - Champion Outriding Horse
2018
Grande Prairie Stompede, WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence - "COWBOY" - Champion Right Wheeler
2022
Dewberry World Chuckwagon Races

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