Jason Glass had a lot of people — and horses — to thank after winning the Cowboys Rangeland Derby at the 2024 Calgary Stampede. With his wife Brienne and kids Bodie and Steele by his side on Sunday night, Glass walked onto the GMC Stadium grandstand stage to accept a $50,000 cheque and keys to a new GMC truck from track announcer Les McIntyre. “It’s not just about these four horses I drove tonight,” said Glass, who’s proud of his chuckwagon racing lineage that dates all the way back to 1924 when his great-grandfather Tom Lauder won his first of three Stampede titles.
“It’s about years and years of hard work that our family’s putting in, the Calgary Stampede’s put in (and) all you people (in the crowd). Just the sport of chuckwagon racing is amazing.” Indeed, it has been for the Glass family as Jason’s grandfather Ronnie won four titles, while his dad Tom crossed the finish line in first on four occasions.
Without a strong stable of horses and people to take care of those equine athletes, the Glass family could not have accomplished what they have in the sport of chuckwagon racing. “It’s definitely not just the driver,” said Glass, who won his first Rangeland Derby title in 2013 and then had to wait 11 years to capture his second. “It takes an army to build these wagon outfits.
I’m just so proud of my horses. They were amazing.” Running off barrel No.
1 in Sunday’s Dash For Cash, Glass decided to go with an outfit comprised of Chaska (righ.