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The Florida Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association (FSBOA) will wrap-up the 2025 harness racing season this Saturday (November 29) with the Florida Breeders Stake at the* Sunshine Meadows Equestrian Center (sunshinemeadowsdelray.com/sunshine-meadows) in Delray Beach, Florida. There will be eight race events for two and three-year-old trotters and pacers starting at 11:00 am. Each of the eight […]
This Saturday morning (November 22), harness racing driver Joseph Fiorello will suit-up in his designed racing silks and put his undefeated winning streak on the line in the Florida Stallion Stakes at Sunshine Meadows Equestrian Village in Delray Beach, Florida. Most harness racing drivers begin their careers in their teens and see more losses than wins at […]
This Saturday, November 15, the Florida Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association (FSBOA) will host the eight harness racing finals of the Florida Sunshine Stakes at Sunshine Meadows Equestrian Village in Delray Beach. Each of the eight finals are for two and three-year-old trotters and pacers. The first race gets underway at 11:00 am. Nola Christian […]
The second leg of the Florida Sunshine Stakes for two and three-year-old trotters and pacers takes place this Saturday (Nov. 8) at the Sunshine Meadows Equestrian Center in Delray Beach. The races are sponsored by the Florida Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association. All eight of the opening round harness racing winners from last week are […]
Leon J. Zimmerman, a member of the Harness Racing Communicators Hall of Fame, has written and published a memoir of his favorite stories during a remarkable 65-year career as an award-winning journalist and government affairs consultant. In the book, “From Bylines to Storylines,” he takes the reader from the newsroom to the corridors of government, sharing behind-the-scenes […]
Coral Springs, FL – The Florida Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association will be hosting the opening leg of the Florida Sunshine Stakes Saturday morning (November 1) at the Sunshine Meadows Equestrian Village in Delray Beach. The eight-race harness racing program gets underway at 11:00 am and will feature two and three-year-old trotters and pacers competing over […]
Pompano Beach, FL — Steve Wolf, president of the Florida Chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association, has announced that the chapter is now accepting applications for its 2025 Allen J. Finkelson Scholarship. The scholarship fund was established in memory of Hall of Famer Allen J. Finkelson, the former Vice President of Public Relations at […]
Light Blue Movers (Ready Cash) was the 6-1 upset harness racing winner and Hellabalou (Sweet Lou) the bettor’s choice winner in the $18,000 co-feature Open Handicap Trot and Pace at MGM Northfield Park Sunday, January 1, 2023. The New Year’s Day program saw Magical Muscle Man (Kurt Sugg) first on the lead in the 2nd […]
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. […]
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 […]
