{"id":782848,"date":"2026-07-06T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782848\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:00:47","slug":"ray-croteau-jr-takes-top-spot-on-day-2-of-2026-calgary-stampede-rangeland-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782848\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Croteau Jr. takes top spot on Day 2 of 2026 Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7b4d0f2d-91c3-4c2b-ae17-cf2adfd40117-1.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Shellie Scott)<\/p>\n<p>By Nathaniel Leigh<\/p>\n<p>Chuckwagons<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 5, 2026 | 9:35 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Day 2 of the \u00a0the 2026 Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby had a shake-up in the top three standings.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Croteau Jr. took the<a href=\"https:\/\/wpca.com\/croteau-jr-sets-pace-while-vigen-claims-aggregate-lead-on-night-2-in-calgary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> top spot of the aggregate Saturday, July 4,<\/a> after coming in fourth Friday, July 3.<\/p>\n<p>Croteau Jr. ended the evening with 1:11.58, followed shortly by defending champion and Grande Prairie\u2019s own Chanse Vigen, who secured second place with a time of 1:12.05, despite taking a one-second penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top three was Jason Glass with a time of 1:12.28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: Shellie Scott) By Nathaniel Leigh Chuckwagons Jul 5, 2026 | 9:35 AM Day 2 of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-782848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}