Pictured L-R: Logan Gorst and Logan Pethick. (Submitted photos/CVM Photography/Buddy Gran)

By Martin Martinson

A season for the books

Meadow Lake’s Gorst, Pethick take CPCA high point championships

Aug 22, 2023 | 10:20 PM

Both named Logan, and both the pride of Meadow Lake, Sask., spending their summers on the chuckwagon track… but that’s not all Logan Gorst and Logan Pethick have in common, as the pair each took home a high point championship as well, to cap the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) season.

Gorst won the high point title for drivers with an aggregate score of 1,273.5 over the summer schedule, followed by Luke Tournier (1,265.5) and fellow Meadow Lake local, DJ King (1,213.5) who rounded out the top three on the year-end leaderboard.

“It was a really good year, the horses ran very consistently, we hit a little bit of a dip in the middle of the year, but we definitely finished strong,” Gorst said, reflecting on his success.

“This was probably the least amount of ‘day moneys’ I’ve ran in a year, but it just always seemed like I was consistently at the top, it didn’t really matter which outfit I sent, they were always knocking right on the door.”

An annual contender for the high point championship the last number of years, Gorst finished runner-up for the aggregate title just last year, and fourth the year before that, prior to topping the heap for the first time this season. He said the success wouldn’t have been possible without the support of his family.

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“This is my first high-point championship as a driver, so it’s pretty special,” he said. “I was second two or three times before, so to be able to finish it off at the end of the year, and just having all my family with me makes it really special. I couldn’t go down the road without them.”

Pethick was the lone outrider to eclipse the 5,000 point mark with 5,164, finishing a staggering 282.5 points up on second-place Wyatt Dyck (4,881.5), ahead of the field.

This marked the third time Pethick has won the outrider high point championship, having also done so last year and in 2018, though it’s something he said never loses its shine.

“It’s awesome… that’s what you work for all season is to finish first, so I was just lucky enough this year to have it work out that way,” he said, adding that the sustained success needed to accomplish the effort also takes a certain amount of discipline.

“You’ve just got to take care of yourself through the year. Outriding’s hard on your body so you can’t just be going out every night, you’ve got to look after yourself and make sure you’re able to ride the next day,” he said.

As for how it felt to not only win the outrider high point, but see Gorst take the driver highpoint as well, Pethick couldn’t help but let out a smile.

“I rode for Logan all year long, so for him to win high point and myself to win high point too, I think that’s pretty cool having come from the same town,” he said.

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