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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 […]
The Quebec Regional Fair Circuit held its seasonal harness racing finals at the Hippodrome 3R Saturday (Oct. 7) afternoon and despite rainy conditions, track record holder YS Sensationalcity (Keystone Velocity) with driver Roger Guilbeault, stole the show. The 4th race feature started off with Velocity City (Dany Mainguy) going to the early lead with Mach […]
The Hippodrome 3R will feature a weekend of harness racing action both Saturday and Sunday afternoons, October 7 & 8. The special Saturday card at H3R starts at 1:00 pm and the entire 10-race program is dedicated to the Quebec Regional Fair Circuit’s final card of the 2023 race season. Many of the young drivers […]
The Quebec Jockey Club recently announced an additional day of live harness racing to its 2023 calendar at the Hippodrome 3R along with two new $60,000 stakes events. There is also a post time change for the final Friday program, Sept. 29 with post time at 3:00 pm and then a special Saturday afternoon card […]
The Quebec harness racing fair circuit, the Circuit Regional des Courses de Chevaux du Quebec, began its season on Saturday (Jun. 23) with an eight-race card at St-Joseph-de-Lepage. Jean-Marc Roy struck first in the ATAQ Amateur Drivers’ Challenge (Challenge des Conductrices Amateures), cruising behind D J Power (Major In Art) to a five-length victory in […]
Trois-Rivieres, QC – On a rare Saturday afternoon (Sept. 17), the Hippodrome 3R played host to the harness racing finals of the Quebec Regional Fair Circuit. The fairs are raced at training centers throughout Quebec during the summer months. The toughest matchup of the afternoon took place in the 7th race pace between Disneyman (Sportswriter) […]
Disneyman (Sportswriter) is the Quebec regional harness racing circuit’s new extended distance top dog after winning the 1.5 Mille at Ormstown on Saturday Sep. 10. He went right to the front for Antoine Desrochers and led unopposed through the first of three laps. He felt pressure from Keystone Prestige (Daniel Audet) entering the second half-mile, […]
Harness racing driver Stéphane Gendron has amassed 4237 victories in a long and distinguished career based in Québec, but he’s never had a start to a year like this one. He is perfect after 5 drives — winning twice with two horses and once with another. And he’s set a track record with each of […]
Mickeymaksomespeed (Mickey Hanover) got one back after two straight Quebec regional circuit losses to Jaydens Place in the featured Invitation Pace at St. Joseph de Lepage on Saturday (Aug. 6). Mickeymaksomespeed, driven by Denis Audet worked wide to take the lead passing the half and battled Aethon (Pierre-Luc Roy) to the finish to score in […]
Jaydens Place (Vintage Master) was in a winner’s circle for the third time in seven days as he won the Bay Derby final while breaking the track record at Nouvelle on Saturday (Jul. 30). He shut the door on Ninoscredit (Jimmy Gagnon) to secure pocket positioning in a :28.2 first quarter. Mickeymakesomespeed (Michel Allard) supplied […]
Jaydens Place (Vintage Master) came out on top of a last-lap battle to win the 3 Mille race over three miles at St. Joseph de Lepage on Saturday (Jul. 23). The nine-year-old held position in third as the five-horse field settled in for the long journey. Driver Stephane Gendron spent some of the gelding’s energy […]
TROIS RIVIÉRES, QUE – The second of two appearances of the Quebec Regional Circuit, an entity which conducts races at the training centers throughout Quebec but whose presence has been necessarily shuttered by COVID, took place at Hippodrome 3R today, to give the circuit’s horses and horse people a chance to compete. (There are tentative […]
Trois-Rivieres, QC – Mother Nature provided a beautiful sunny afternoon for the return of harness racing fans to the Hippodrome 3R Saturday. Before the first race went off at 1:00 pm, more than 100 fans were already at the track and there were still more than 50 cars parked in the backstretch with fans watching […]
