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This Sunday’s (Oct. 2) race program at Hippodrome 3R features the annual Lucien Bombardier Pace for two-year-old fillies with total purses of $37,300 split between two divisions.

Two-year-old pacing fillies were in the spotlight at the Hippodrome 3R on Sunday (Sept. 25), getting tuned up for next week’s Lucien Bombardier Pace, the final stakes race of the year at H3R.

For one of the first times all season, Mother Nature unloaded a day of rain for the 10-race card at Hippodrome 3R on Sunday (Sept. 18) as the track was downgraded to 'sloppy' with a four-second allowance by the time the Preferred features were contested.

Hippodrome 3R played host to the finals of the Quebec Regional Fair Circuit on a rare Saturday afternoon (Sept. 17) card.

A packed house was on hand at Hippodrome 3R on Sunday (Sept. 11) for the richest day of racing in all of Quebec as the track hosted the $480,000 Quebec-Bred Championship finals for two and three-year-old trotters and pacers.

There is more than $500,000 in purses up for grabs as Hippodrome 3R hosts its Super Sunday Quebec-Bred Championship Finals for two and three-year-old trotters and pacers on Sunday (Sept. 11).

The Quebec Jockey Club and Standardbred Canada celebrated National Caretaker Appreciation Day at Hippodrome 3R during the Sunday, Sept. 4 afternoon program that featured a pair of Preferred events.

With sunny skies and 70 degrees, the racing conditions were perfect at Hippodrome 3R on Friday (Sept. 2) for horses that like racing on the front-end. Such was the case in both co-feature races and in five of the 10 races on the card.

Little Diamond may be on the smaller side when compared to other harness racing horses, but the two-year-old colt has a huge heart and showed it Sunday (Aug. 28) at the Hippodrome 3R, scoring his fourth straight win in taking his division of the Future Stars Series.

Despite earlier thunderstorms that left the racetrack "sloppy" with a two-second allowance, the young trotters competing in the third and final leg of the Future Stars Series at the Hippodrome 3R plowed forward.