Stampede's Pioneers of Rodeo Awards given to Sutherland, MacDonald, Dunham, Burwash yyc
“Yeah … I just loved the Calgary Stampede,” Sutherland said. “It was unreal to me. Who wouldn’t love it?
While working as the news director at CKRD Radio and Television in Red Deer, MacDonald formally covered the Stampede for the first time in 1973. In the mid 1990s, MacDonald helped out with Doug Nelson’s documentary on chuckwagon racing called ‘Hotcakes to High Stakes’ and suggested the Northern Professional Chuckwagon Association change its name to the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association, which ultimately happened in 1995.Article content
Over the next 20 years, Dunham would become one of the most successful rodeo athletes at the Stampede.Article content Dunham’s fifth and final trip to the Stampede’s $50,000 showdown round came in 1990, and he rode his last bareback horse here in 1995, but he competed for the final time in the Greatest Outdoor Show On Earth in tie-down roping in 1997.Robin Burwash made history in 1977, when he became the Calgary Stampede’s first novice bareback riding champion. It kick-started an incredible legacy that Burwash would create at the Greatest Outdoor Show On Earth.
Burwash returned to the $50,000 showdown round the following year in 1987, when he ended up as the reserve champion but was honoured with the prestigious Guy Weadick Award.
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