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Titre fondé sur la légende suivante tirée du photoreportage de l'ONF: Chuckwagon race is Stampede's most spectacular event. Covered wagons careen behind straining thoroughbreds in mad figure eight around centre field barrels. Hubcaps lock, wagons crash, horses tangle and pile up. The climax comes on Saturday night, the most thrill-packed race of all, for the driver with the best average time gets a championship trophy. All told, some 500 cowboys compete for about $40,000 in prize money. Champions gross as much as $50,000 a year, for rodeos today are big business, professional entertainment.