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Two of the best drivers in Quebec, Pascal Berube and Stephane Brosseau, are in a hotly-contested battle for leading driver status at Hippodrome 3R this season. Currently, Berube leads Brosseau, 25 to 24 wins and the last couple of weekends both drivers have excelled. On Friday at 3R, Brosseau added one win, but Berube came up with a driving double to maintain his one-win lead in the driver standings. Come this Sunday, both drivers will again be in action. Berube has the slight edge as he has dr...

It is with pleasure that Claude Lévesque, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Quebec Jockey Club, announced Friday an important appointment for the future of the Quebec Jockey Club, an appointment to a position left vacant in recent years - the post of general manager. To avoid any confusion, it should be clarified right away that this is not a position for the Hippodrome 3R racetrack, but an appointment as general manager of the Quebec Club Jockey. Appointed to the position is François...

The Quebec Jockey Club announced today that starting on Sunday (July 4), the Hippodrome 3R will be allowed to increase harness racing spectators by 250 people. H3R will now have 250 race fans allowed in the outdoor section of the track and can have an additional 250 spectators in the Clubhouse/Grandstand indoor section. On the racetrack Friday, Mickeymaksomespeed was the public choice overwhelming 1-5 favourite in the sixth race Preferred Pace and he did not disappoint his fans. With the field ...

  MONTREAL -- Pascal Berube will step down as the Parti Quebecois parliamentary leader at the end of summer. The Matane-Matapedia MNA made the announcement on Wednesday, saying that while the experience was “unique and enriching,” the time had come for someone else to take over. “Being parliamentary leader of a political party is demanding, both from a personal and professional point of view,” he said. “After almost three years in this position, I want to pass the torch to be abl...

Owner-trainer-driver Michael Healey left the gate behind his pupil Vero Amore Bi as the second-longest shot on the board but nonetheless hit the beam first in the $9,200 Preferred Handicap Trot at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Sunday (June 27). Leaving from the second tier, Vero Amore Bi landed in third as pylon-starter Cloud Nine Hanover led the field to the quarter in :28.3. Healey then sent his 7-year-old Manofmanymissions stallion after the lead through a :59 half to seize control and accelera...

Platine Alpha took sole possession as the winningest harness racing horse at the Hippodrome 3R this season, scoring a neck triumph in a nail-biting stretch drive finish Friday afternoon. The lone three-year-old filly racing against older mares in the Preferred-Handicap Pace, driver Pascal Berube looked to leave with Platine Alpha, then took back as Fancy Girl (Francis Picard) went right to the front along with Godiva Mackiavelyc (Simon Delisle) to the opening quarter mile in :28. As the field c...

Fans will have plenty of pari-mutuel action to enjoy this Sunday (June 13) as a trio of Ontario ovals will welcome horsepeople back to the track. Dresden Raceway (1:00 p.m.), Clinton Raceway (1:30 p.m.) and Rideau Carleton Raceway (6:30 p.m.) will have their starting gates fired up as a total of 34 races combined will be contested. Kicking off the Sunday festivities will be Dresden Raceway, and their featured event is the $5,500 Preferred 3 for pacers. A group of eight is set to go postward, a...

Parti Quebecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon speaks at a news conference as the party meets for a pre-session caucus, Monday, January 25, 2021 at the legislature in Quebec City. Parti Quebecois Leader Pascal Berube, right, looks on. Photo by Jacques Boissinot /The Canadian Press Article content Four days after the Legault government tabled Bill 96, described as changes to Bill 101, Quebec’s language charter, the Parti Québécois on Monday unveiled its blueprint to slow the anglicization...

The track maintenance crew at the Hippodrome 3R had the half mile racing oval in prime shape for opening day of the 2021 harness racing season. Mickeymaksomespeed and driver Richard The Black Cat Simard took full advantage of the fast track, sizzling to the lead and never looking back in the Preferred Pace feature. Simard left with Mickeymaksomespeed from post five and had a three-length lead on the field by the opening quarter in :27.2, then led to the half mile in :56.4. Then they opened up a...

  MONTREAL -- A 54-year-old woman has died in the province after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Quebecs public health director Horacio Arruda confirmed Tuesday. “We just had our first patient who has died of a thrombosis, cerebral thrombosis, following vaccination from AstraZeneca," said Arruda in a news conference. "This is an event that is rare. We knew that it might happen. We have a risk of default one in every 100,000 doses today." Arruda said it was a risk the provin...