A packed house was on hand at Hippodrome 3R on Sunday (Sept. 11) for the richest day of racing in all of Quebec as the track hosted the $480,000 Quebec-Bred Championship finals for two and three-year-old trotters and pacers.
With sunny skies and 70 degrees, the racing conditions were perfect at Hippodrome 3R on Friday (Sept. 2) for horses that like racing on the front-end. Such was the case in both co-feature races and in five of the 10 races on the card.
Francis Richard ignored the warning sign - literally - when he bid $7,000 for trotter Fashion Frenzie as a yearling, and has been richly rewarded for it.
Little Diamond may be on the smaller side when compared to other harness racing horses, but the two-year-old colt has a huge heart and showed it Sunday (Aug. 28) at the Hippodrome 3R, scoring his fourth straight win in taking his division of the Future Stars Series.
Hippodrome 3R featured a 15-race program on Friday (Aug. 12) with seven divisions of the second round of the Future Stars Series for two-year-old trotters and pacers. And it was a day for the longshots to come in.