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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 came around the turn towards the half mile, race favourite Playa Duharas (Stephane Gendron) came firs...

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, and among the combatants is the classy veteran Leafs And Wings. Just under six months away from man...

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 of Quebec, a plan that calls for increased control of immigration into the province. The PQ’s 15-...

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 at the three-quarters in 1:26 and were leading by six lengths at the top of the stretch.

  MONTREAL -- A 54-year-old woman has died in the province after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Quebec's 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 province knew it was taking, and that the benefits outweigh the risks. "It puts a face on a statistic a...