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Reg Johnstone

Name Birth Date: July 18, 1948
Year Started Outriding: 1978
Year Started Driving: 1976
Hometown: Bashaw, AB
WPCA Championship Final Heat Qualifications: 26
WINS: 8


World Professional Standings

2009 - 16th
2008 - 8th
2007 - 11th
2006 - 2nd
2005 - WORLD CHAMPION
2004 - 5th
2003 - 3rd

Personal Information

Reg Johnstone has been one of chuckwagon racing’s greatest champions for the past 4 decades. Reg was the 2005 World Champion Chuckwagon Driver and won the 2005 WPCA Dodge Pro Tour Championship becoming the first chuckwagon to capture both championships in the same year. 2009 saw Reg post 18 top ten runs, including 1 first place run and 10 runs that cracked the top five. He won the Medicine Hat Stampede for the 2nd time in his career and top ten overall finishes at the Grande Prairie Stompede and the Calgary Stampede were his best of the year. Reg has qualified for the Calgary Stampede?Rangeland Derby’s sudden death championship final heat 3 times, has won 35 show championships over the course of his career, and has had 2 horses named to the WPCA's Equine Outfit of Excellence. Reg is consistently one of the top performers both on and off the racetrack. He holds the track record for the old Calgary Stampede track, and has been a top promoter of chuckwagon racing to the many tourists attending the Calgary Stampede and WPCA Dodge Pro Tour shows. Reg has three children Wade (Butch), Barbara, and Jason and 3 grandchildren. Reg and Marilyn make their home in Bashaw, Alberta.

Major Awards And Victories

  • 1978: Teepee Creek Stampede, Great Falls Chuckwagon Championship
  • 1980: Grande Prairie County Fair, Valleyview Chuckwagon Championship
  • 1982: Patricia Chuckwagon Championship
  • 1983: Trochu Chuckwagon Championship, Stettler Stampede, Regina Buffalo Days
  • 1984: Hobbema Chuckwagon Championship, North American Chuckwagon Championship
  • 1985: Trochu Chuckwagon Championship, Grande Prairie Stompede; Hobbema Chuckwagon Championship, Rimby Chuckwagon Championship
  • 1986: Handhills Stampede
  • 1989: Patricia Chuckwagon Championship
  • 1990: Ponoka Stampede
  • 1994: Strathmore Heritage Days
  • 1995: Trochu Chuckwagon Championship, Moses Lake Round-Up
  • 1996: Bashaw Chuckwagon Championship
  • 1997: Trochu Chuckwagon Championship, Klondike Chuckwagon Derby
  • 1998: Fort Nelson Chuckwagon Championship
  • 1999: Fort Nelson Chuckwagon Championship
  • 2002: Badlands Dinosaur Derby, Rocky Mountain Turf Club Derby
  • 2004: Ponoka Stampede, Battle Of The North
  • 2005: WORLD CHAMPION CHUCKWAGON DRIVER, WPCA DODGE PRO TOUR CHAMPION, Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede, Rocky Mountain Turf Club Derby, Ponoka Stampede, WPCA Equine Award Of Excellence - "MIDNIGHT BOB" - Champion Right Wheeler
  • 2006: Rocky Mountain Turf Club Derby, WPCA Equine Award Of Excellence - "TIGER" - Champion Left Wheeler.
  • 2009: Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede

 


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