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After three weeks of preliminary round action, there will be three $30,000 harness racing finals of the Quebec-Bred Series for older pacers and trotters at the Hippodrome 3R Sunday (July 9). The trotters are in the limelight first on the 11-race card on Sunday. The 4th race features two unique challengers in Frido PV (Muscle
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.
Littlebitaswagger and driver Francis Picard left like a rocket and let none of their rivals get close to them in Sunday's (July 11) featured Preferred Handicap Pace at Hippodrome 3R. Littlebitaswagger led the field past the opening quarter in a speedy :26.2 with Farmers Tan (Carol Voyer) trying to follow in the two-hole. After passing the half in :55.4, Littlebitaswagger and Picard started to inch away from the field as no one was even trying a first-over challenge. Picard let Littlebitaswagger have his head starting up the backstretch, and they started to pull away from the field, leading b...
When the Quebec Jockey Club added a special Friday race card in addition to its Sunday card of harness racing at Hippodrome 3R, there was little trouble filling both race programs. In fact, there are a total of 19 races over the two days and all but one race has full fields of eight starters and the one race that did not fill all the way has seven starters. “We are really pleased with the results from this quick double draw on Wednesday,” said Murielle Thomassin, Director of Racing at the Hippodrome 3R. “We only announced late Tuesday that we were adding the Friday card and then on Wedn...
With 15 races on the Sunday (March 14) card at Rideau Carleton Raceway, driver Guy Gagnon snagged seven—three of which came from his stable and another three of which came from trainer Mandy Archer, who scored a grand slam. Gagnon’s evening began with a wire-to-wire job in the opener to win with his pupil Wild River Coyotee ($4.10) in 2:00.1. Two races later, Gagnon bagged an open-length victory with Windsong Quincy ($2.10)—the first of Mandy Archer’s four winners. Gagnon later drove Saskabush Steve ($7.00) and Archer trainees Avatar J ($2.50) and The Roadies ($4.80) to victories befo...