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On Feb. 3, 2025, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) published three new rulings regarding the collaboration between two harness racing trainers in order to circumvent a previous ruling and violate the Rules of Standardbred Racing. Standardbred trainer Jimmy Gagnon has been suspended for 18 months and fined $2,500 for collaborating with a […]
Fix A Drink (Angus Hall) won his fourth harness racing Preferred-Handicap in five weeks on Thursday (Nov. 23) at Rideau Carleton Raceway on a sloppy track rated three second slow. Post eight called for a tactics change from Jimmy Gagnon, who dropped the gelding back into fifth to the quarter in :28.1. Gagnon put him […]
Fix A Drink (Angus Hall) repeated in the Rideau Carleton Raceway Preferred-Handicap on Thursday (Nov. 2) in another wire-to-wire harness racing effort. The gelding raced on top through :28.2 and :58 first-half fractions before throwing down with Crossfit (Guy Gagnon), who tipped first-over entering the backstretch. Fix A Drink held the attacker a length adrift […]
Fix A Drink (Angus Hall) broke into the Preferred ranks at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Thursday (Oct. 26) as he won the harness racing track’s top-class event for the first time. The gelding, starting from post two for Jimmy Gagnon, tussled with Preferred mainstay Raising Rusty (Stephane Pouliot) to the quarter in :28 and won […]
The Hippodrome 3R in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec kicks off its 2023 stakes season on Sunday, June 11, with the opening round of the Quebec-Bred Series for four-year-old and up pacers. There are three divisions of the first leg of the series. Two are for pacing mares and one for the horses. There are three preliminary rounds […]
Trois-Rivieres, QC – With sunny skies and 70 degrees, the conditions were perfect at the Hippodrome 3R Friday (Sept. 2) for harness racing horses that like being on the front-end. Such was the case in both co-feature races and in five of the ten races on the card. The 6th race Preferred Trot saw Brady Bunch […]
