“If you’re in Ponoka and you have to ride against Jake Vold, you better have Virgil,” said Richmond Champion, the 2018 Ponoka Stampede bareback riding winner. 

Champion took home $12,948 throughout the week at the Ponoka Stampede, including winning the showdown round with his 91.25-point ride aboard the 2017 PRCA bareback horse of the year, C5 Rodeo’s Virgil.

Champion went head-to-head in the four-man round at the Ponoka Stampede with traveling partners Jake Vold and Caleb Bennett, as well as Inglis, Manitoba's Orin Larsen.