First female CPCA driver to make racing debut in North Battleford next spring
When the horn sounds on May 31 at the North Battleford Exhibition Grounds and thundering hooves hit the dirt to start the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) season, history will be made by at least one driver.
When Amber L’Heureux cracks the reigns from the seat of her wagon, she will become not only the first professional female driver in the circuit’s six-decade history, but in the world.
The 25-year-old passed the associations sanctioning tests in July and will purchase an official membership to the CPCA at the organizations annual general meeting Saturday.
The Glaslyn, Sask. native first took to the track when she was 14 in a small chariot running ponies. She went on to race pony chuckwagons for ten years and is eager to place four thoroughbreds in front of her wagon in 2019.