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The curtain came down on the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) 2024 harness racing season Sunday (Nov. 3) with a 12-race card that featured both a $6,500 Preferred Pace and a $10,000 Pace for older Quebec-owned mares. In the 5th race Preferred Pace, overwhelming 1/9 race favorite Light The Torch (Always B Miki) and driver Pascal Berube […]
At 11:15 am on Sunday (Nov. 3) before the start of the final live harness racing program of the season at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R), two special presentations will be made in the winner’s circle to the leading driver and trainer of the 2024 race meet. Pascal Berube, from Portneu, Quebec, will be awarded with […]
Showing true grit from start to finish, Aladdin (Shadow Play) and driver Stephane Brosseau scored an impressive front-end triumph in capturing the Sunday (Oct. 27) feature pace at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R). The 10th race $10,000 feature for Quebec-owned pacers saw Aladdin and Brosseau scoot to the early lead and then parked out I Ama […]
Last week at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) it was the trotters on display and this Sunday, October 27, the pacers will be in the harness racing limelight with a $10,000 feature for Quebec-owned older pacers. The 10th race feature is headlined by Light The Torch (Always B Miki) from post six for driver Pascal Berube. […]
With a bold, three-wide move at the three-quarters, Kenogami Coco (Wheeling N Dealin) looped the field in winning the $10,000 harness racing feature trot Sunday, Oct. 20 at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. The 7th race for Quebec-owned older horses saw Rose Run Why Not (Pascal Berube) leave from the rail and cut […]
The limelight will be on the harness racing trotters come this Sunday, Oct. 20, at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec as nine high steppers will do battle in the $10,000 Open Trot for Quebec-Breds. Thats Hooligan (Rose Run Hooligan) returns to H3R from Rideau Carleton where he won his last start for driver […]
The Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec was the host of the inaugural Francois Carignan Cup Sunday (Oct. 13) which was the championship final of the 2024 harness racing season for amateur drivers. And scoring a big upset Sunday was amateur driver Nancy Auger (no relation to driver Marie-Claude Auger), who was able to lead […]
Before the start of the 2024 harness racing season at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R), during a joint meeting of representatives from the racetrack, the Association trot et amble du Québec (ATAQ) and the Quebec Regional Fair Circuit, it was decided to revive racing for amateur drivers at both H3R and the Regional Fair Circuit. The […]
The Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec featured more than $130,000 in harness racing stakes races Sunday (Oct. 6) with two special memorial races, the $102,000 Brian Paquet and the $30,200 Lucien Bombardier. Both Paquet and Bombardier were industry leaders not only in Quebec but for all of Canada. The Bombardier Memorial is co-sponsored by […]
Sunday afternoon (Oct. 6), the Quebec Jockey Club will host two $51,000 harness racing divisions of the second annual Brian Paquet Memorial at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) and it is anyone’s guess as to who will win either of the Invitational pacing events. The two divisions are named after longtime Quebec horse owner, breeder and […]
This Saturday, Oct. 3, the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) will host a special Saturday afternoon harness racing card featuring the 2024 Quebec Regional Fair Finals. There are 11-races on the program that gets underway at 1:00 pm. All eyes will be on the 6th race Open Handicap Pace Final where three return winners headline the field. Frozen […]
It has been three weeks since Mirabel Enfete (Leader Bayama) won the $55,000 Quebec-bred Championship Final at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) and the filly returns to harness racing action Sunday (September 29) in the two-year-old Open Filly Pace. Bred and owned by Guy Corbeil of Mirabel, Que., enfete means celebrates in French, thus Mirabel Celebrates. […]
A new face is making waves within the Indiana harness racing driver’s colony. And unlike the recent tsunami of Down Under reinsmen, this youngster comes from the middle of the Atlantic. His name is Kiwon Waldron, he’s 24, and a native of Bermuda, an island colonized by Great Britian and located about 643 miles east […]
Simply The Best (All Bets Off) had no trouble living up to her name Sunday (Sept. 22) at the Hippodrome 3R in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec as the harness racing filly led from start to finish in winning a co-feature pace. The 5th race $5,000 Open Pace for two-year-old fillies saw Simply The Best and driver Pascal […]
The 5th race $7,000 feature pace for harness racing three-year-olds at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) Sunday (Sept. 15) saw race favorite Ambitious Mind (Big Jim) and driver Francis Picard go down the road from post three enroute to a three-quarter length triumph in a lifetime best mile of 1:55.3. A gusty Dan Speed (Jessica Turenne) […]
This Sunday, September 15, will be National Caretaker Appreciation Day at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. Now in its seventh year of promotion by Standardbred Canada, racetracks throughout Canada designate a day during August 30 to September 16, to highlight the work of these too often forgotten unsung heroes of our harness racing […]
The fastest trotting mile ever in the history of the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec was set Friday afternoon (Sept. 13) as Royalty Beer (Royalty For Life) with driver Pascal Berube won the feature harness racing event in a romp in 1:54. It tied the lifetime mark for Royalty Beer, a five-year-old gelding, but […]
This Friday, September 13th, is the final Friday twilight harness racing card of the season at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. After Friday’s 10-race card, the track will then race on Sundays only until the end of the race meet on November 24. The last Friday card features a $6,500 Quebec-Bred Trot for […]
The Hippodrome 3R in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec hosted more than $500,000 in purses on Super Sunday, September 8, headlined by the Quebec-Bred Championship Finals for two and three-year-old harness racing trotters and pacers. For the 12-race card Sunday the total handle of $334,655 was the all-time track record handle, surpassing Super Sunday last year by $11,236. […]
Not even the photo finish camera could separate race favorites Era Of Love and Rec Time to see who won the 5th race $5,000 Preferred Pace for the mares at the Hippodrome Trois-Rivieres (H3R) in Quebec on Sunday, September 1. It was the first dead heat for win of the season at H3R. It was […]
It’s being billed as the Clash of the Titans when Light The Torch goes against Frozen Hanover in the 10th race harness racing feature pace Sunday (Sept. 1) at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. Racing fans will have to wait until the very last race on Sunday to witness this battle royale, pitting […]
In a thrilling two-horse battle down the stretch, $575,000 career winner Only For Justice (Justice Hall) was able to beat Royalty Beer in the final strides to the wire in winning the harness racing featured trot Friday (Aug. 30) at the Hippodrome Trois-Rivieres in Quebec. Competing in the 6th race $8,500 trot for Quebec-breds, it […]
On Friday at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, the harness racing trotters will be in the spotlight with two special Quebec-bred races. One for the older horses and the other for three-year-olds. The older horses are on the track first in the 6th race $8,500 trot and making his return after a brief […]
With one of the gutsiest performances of his career, 14-1 Redwood Hanover (Stay Hungry) and driver Jonathan Drury wore down Huntinthelastdolar (Doug McNair) in the stretch to capture the C$200,000 Prix d’Ete for four-year-old pacers Sunday (Aug. 18) at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. It was the 33 edition of the Prix d’Ete, […]
