World Professional Standings
2012 - 8th
2011 - 10th
2010 - 4th
2009 - 14th
2008 - 6th
2007 - 3rd
2006 - 8th
2005 - 6th
2004 - 4th
2003 - 5th
Major Awards And Victories
- 2005: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Driver; Richard Cosgrave Memorial Award, Red Deer Chuckwagon Championship, WPCA Equine Outfit Of Excellence - "SMOOTHY" - Champion Right Leader
- 2006: WPCA Equine Outfit Of Excellence - "PORT" - Champion Left Leader
- 2007: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Driver, Rocky Mountain Turf Club Derby, Richard Cosgrave Memorial Award, Mullen Group Safe Drive Award, WPCA Equine Outfit Of Excellence - "JAG" - Champion Right Wheeler
- 2008: North American Chuckwagon Championship, Badlands Dinosaur Derby, Strathmore Heritage Days Stampede, WPCA Equine Outfit Of Excellence - "PORT" - Champion Left Leader
- 2010: Dewberry World Chuckwagon Races, North American Chuckwagon Championship
Personal Information
An exciting and spectacular chuckwagon driver, Luke is a two–time Calgary Stampede GMC Rangeland Derby Champion, a two–time Calgary Stampede Aggregate winner, and won the Calgary Stampede's Safe Drive Award for the Least Penalized Driver in 2007. He set an earnings record at the 2007 GMC Rangeland Derby, has had a record four horses named to the WPCA's Equine Outfit of Excellence, and holds the track record at the Ponoka Stampede. 2012 saw Luke post 17 top ten runs, including 6 runs that placed inside the top five. He made qualified for "Semi-Final Saturday" at the 2012 GMC Rangeland Derby, an placed in the top ten overall at five show championships as well. He is undefeated in the Calgary Stampede winner-take-all final winning twice in two trips. Since joining the WPCA back in 2003, Luke has collected eleven major titles including two North American Chuckwagon Championships, and has made the Ponoka Stampede winner-take-all final five times as well. Previously a member of the CPCA, Luke won fourteen CPCA show championships, twice qualified for the CPCA’s championship dash, and along received the CPCA's Chuckwagon Family of the Year in 2001. He is the father of outrider Quaid Tournier, father–in–law to fellow driver Logan Gorst, and older brother to former competitor Léo Tournier. Luke and his wife Michele have three children - Shalyn, Lane and Quaid - and two grandchildren. The Tournier’s make their home in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan.
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