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Chuckwagon Outrider 1972-1992
Chuckwagon Driver 1984-2015
Three-time World Champion Driver 1990, 1995, 2003
World Champion Outrider 1986
Two time Ponoka Stampede Champion Driver 1996, 2007
Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion 1993
 Jerry
Bremner was born in Loon Lake Saskatchewan and grew up in the Loon River
Community. He attended Rapid View Elementary and high school in Loon
Lake. During his school years Jerry was an all-round athlete and
competed in hockey, basketball, volleyball and football. Jerry is a
second generation chuckwagon driver whose father was former Calgary
Stampede finalist Roy Bremner. Jerry started his chuckwagon racing
career as an outrider for his father’s chuckwagon outfit in 1972 with
the Northern Chuckwagon Racing Association (NCRA) and began driving in
1984 on the World Professional Chuckwagon Association (WPCA) circuit.
He was the 1986 World Champion Outrider and is one of the most decorated
Chuckwagon Drivers of all time. Jerry is a three-time World Champion
Chuckwagon Driver, a two time Ponoka Stampede Champion and was the 1993
Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion. Jerry retired from his
illustrious chuckwagon driving career in 2015.
Top Rookie Driver Leads
to Thirty-One Year
Professional Racing Career
 Jerry
started outriding at the tender age of twelve and continued his
outriding career for twenty years (1972-1992). He was the NPCA Champion
Outrider in 1981. Additionally, Jerry was an outrider on three Calgary
Stampede Rangeland Derby outfits (1982, 1984, 1991), four Ponoka
Stampede outfits (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987), and was the 1982 Calgary
Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider. In 1986 Jerry was the World
Champion Outrider. Jerry’s outriding accomplishments alone would
qualify him for induction into the Wetaskiwin and County Sports Hall of
Fame.
Wins Three North American
Chuck Wagon Championships
Jerry’s thirty-one year
career as a driver started when he was twenty-four. In 1984, his first
year of driving, Jerry won the WPCA Top Rookie Driver Award and became
the second rookie to win a show on the WPCA Pro Tour when he captured
the Trochu Chuckwagon Championship. Over the years Jerry won the Trochu
championship four more times (1989, 1990, 1993, 1996). Other multiple
wins include a three-time championship of both the Grande Prairie
Stampede (1994, 2007, 2008) and the North American Chuckwagon
Championship (2006, 2009, 2011) and a two-time winner of Ponoka (1996,
2007), Medicine Hat (2006, 2007) and the United States Chuckwagon
Tournament (2006, 2009). Rimby (1986), Calgary (1993), Moses Lake
(1994) and Strathmore (2007) round out his championship wins. During
his chuckwagon driving career Jerry won a total of nineteen WPCA show
wins as well as numerous other championships. In his 1984 rookie season
in the WPCA Jerry placed a respectable twelfth in the World Professional
standings.
In his thirty-one years of
chuckwagon racing Jerry has consistently placed high in the standings.
He achieved the top five seventeen times and the top ten nine times.
Three times Jerry was the World Champion Driver by amassing the most
number of points during the season (1990, 1995, 2003). As well, in WPCA
Championships Jerry qualified for forty-six final heats. Among the final
heats, eight include the Calgary Stampede Rangeland winner-take-all
championship final. All in all, Jerry has a most impressive
championship resume!
Co-holder of Calgary Stampede
Track Record Can Never Be Broken
Besides the Top Rookie
Driver Award Jerry was also awarded the WPCA Most Improved Chuckwagon
Driver award in 1986 and the WPCA Clean Drive Award in 2003. Also,
Jerry has had four of his horses named to the WPCA’s Equine Outfit of
Excellence. Adding to his racing resume, Jerry will forever be the
co-holder of the Calgary Stampede track record on the old track. Jerry
was also involved in the Chuckwagon Association where he served on the
Driver Director Board for fifteen years.
Jerry Bremner is a
well-respected member of the Chuckwagon community. He has a competitive
spirit but is known as a fair competitor. Competing on the chuckwagon
circuit for Jerry was a family effort; his wife Donna, his son Shane and
his daughter Jaycee were all involved on the “Bremner Team”. Jerry has
been described by other drivers as one of the “best caregivers of horses in
the business”. We are recognizing Jerry’s outstanding chuckwagon
careers in both outriding and driving by inducting him into the
Wetaskiwin and County Sports Hall of Fame.
Read Jerry's acceptance speech.
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