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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If the trouncing Light The Torch (Always B Miki) gave his rivals last week at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) was any indication of how good this horse is, then they better watch out this Sunday at the Trois-Rivieres track in Quebec. Light The Torch is the overwhelming race favorite once again in the 6th race […]
This Sunday (May 5) is opening day for the 2024 harness racing season at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. And no one is more excited for the start of the season than four-time defending driving champion Pascal Berube. Berube led all drivers last season at H3R with 81 wins, 24 wins ahead of […]
Duke Lavictoire (Royalty For Life), a Preferred-level gelding at Rideau Carleton Raceway for most of last year, won his seasonal debut in a conditioned harness racing contest on Thursday (Apr. 25). The gelding cut the mile unopposed for Pascal Berube and held off The Magic Of Life (Robert Robinson) and pocket-sitter Raising Rusty (Stephane Pouliot) […]
This Sunday, Nov. 12, is the closing curtain on the 2023 harness racing season at the Hippodrome 3R and there will be no battles for the leading driver and trainer awards as they are all already decided. With a 24-win lead over rival Stephane Brosseau going into the final day of racing, driver Pascal Berube […]
Harness racing trainer Marc-Andre Simoneau harnessed two winners at the Hippodrome 3R Sunday (Oct. 22) afternoon and tied rival David Pilon at 29 winners each in the trainer standings. There are only two days of racing left to the H3R race meet in 2023. Two of Simoneau’s winners were driven by Pascal Berube, who led […]
Manhattan Joe (Up The Credit) and harness racing driver Pascal Berube were able to speed up early, then take back, then weave their way to victory lane in the Hippodrome 3R feature pace Friday (Sept. 29). The 8th race saw Gringo Star (Steven Gagnon) leave from post five to grab the early lead with race […]
Duke Lavictoire (Royalty For Life) won the Preferred-Handicap at Rideau Carleton Raceway for the first time in two months in a commanding harness racing performance on Thursday (Sep. 28). Pascal Berube placed the gelding on top, and Duke Lavictoire put up a :27.3 first panel. The gelding edged away to a two-and-a-half length cushion at […]
GA Speed Gaby (Windfall Blue Chip), coming off a 15-length romp a week ago, eased to another harness racing victory at the Hippodrome 3R on Friday (Sep. 14). Doc Fanelli (Jocelyn Gendron) blasted out from post four to lead into the first turn, but GA Speed Gaby moved to the outside and marched to the […]
Ladycorona saw her five-race winning streak come to an end at the Hippodrome 3R Sunday, September 3 as Kiss Me Bad (Badlands Hanover) scored an upset victory in the Preferred-Handicap Pace for fillies and mares. The 5th race co-feature saw the even money race favorite, Ladycorona and driver Pascal Berube take early command of the […]
The front end was the place to be in the co-feature harness racing pace and trot Friday (Sept. 1) at the Hippodrome 3R. The 4th race feature pace saw the 13-year-old Windsun Cheyenne (Cam’s Card Shark), the oldest competitor in the field, and driver Pascal Berube leave from post one and not let anyone pass […]
Best Honey Hanover (Art Major) drew off after catching the leader to put an exclamation mark on a track record-breaking harness racing performance at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Thursday (Jul. 20). Pascal Berube finally tucked the mare into third after being stranded through a :26.1 first quarter. Greytone Treasure (Guy Gagnon) took the field to […]
Despite earlier rainstorms that ended at the start of the race program, making the track rated good with a two second allowance, Ladycorona (Bettors Delight) was at her best in capturing her division of the Breeders Trophy Series Sunday (July 16) afternoon at the Hippodrome 3R. There were four divisions of the opening round of […]
Duke Lavictoire (Royalty For Life) eased to harness racing victory the Preferred Handicap Trot at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Thursday (Jul. 13), defeating four-time winner Black Tie Bash by a wide margin. Pascal Berube pushed the gelding to the top in a :28.4 first panel and fended off a mid-mile march from Donatover (Stephane Brosseau), […]
The Hippodrome 3R will begin live harness racing on Friday’s starting tomorrow (June 9) with a nine-race card beginning at 4:00 pm. The track will now be open two days a week, Friday and Sunday’s (12:00 noon) through the summer months. To kick off the first Friday twilight program, the race office at H3R has […]
Going into the Sunday afternoon (June 4) harness racing program at the Hippodrome 3R, the Quebec racetrack was featuring the highest win price per race this season at $14.49 per winner. It is one of the highest averages of any track in North America. And, after the first race on Sunday, that average will continue […]
Of the nine harness racing horses entered in the Preferred Pace at the Hippodrome 3R in Quebec on Sunday (May 21), there are four return winners in the field who will make the race a wide-open affair. The 5/2 morning line favorite and rightly so, is D Gs De Vito (Sportswriter) who last week was […]
With the 2/5 race favorite Little Manny going off-stride trying to take the early lead away from pacesetter Mickeymaksomespeed (Jocelyn Gendron), it set up a great scenario for D Gs De Vito (Sportswriter) to upset at 14-1 in the Preferred-Handicap Pace at the Hippodrome 3R Sunday (May 14). After the Little Manny fiasco, the 10th […]
He may not be the biggest looking harness racing horse on the racetrack, but not many others have the heart, lungs and desire to win as much as Little Manny (Articulator) currently has. Little Manny headlines the Preferred Pace Sunday afternoon at the Hippodrome 3R in Quebec. The six-year-old gelding is shooting for his third […]
One of the closest finishes in the harness racing history of the Hippodrome 3R in Quebec took place Sunday (May 7) in the 7th race pace as six horses crossed the finish wire at the same time. Mach Play (Shadow Play) emerged a nose winner for owner and driver Joel Gagnon in 2:01 at odds […]
Harness racing driver Pascal Berube started the 2023 opening day at the Hippodrome 3R in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec Sunday (April 20) afternoon the same way he ended the race meet in 2022, winning. And by the end of the afternoon, Berube had won his 3,000th career trip to the winner’s circle. Earlier this season he surpassed […]
