Preferred Pace

Two-year-old pacing fillies were in the spotlight at the Hippodrome 3R on Sunday (Sept. 25), getting tuned up for next week’s Lucien Bombardier Pace, the final stakes race of the year at H3R.

Driver Travis Henry persisted through a first-over grind at landed in time to take the $11,000 Fillies & Mares Preferred Handicap Pace at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday night (Sept. 21).

It was a case of ‘bouncing back’ for Monday’s Preferred winners at Grand River Raceway as Dontpokethedragon and Arrakis managed to right the ship following poor performances in their previous outings.

Laying feet as fast as he could in the final half, Burn Out Hanover paced away from his Monday evening Preferred competition at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway.

A pocket ride for St Lads Cash proved profitable in the $10,500 Preferred Handicap Pace on Sunday (Sept. 18) at Rideau Carleton Raceway as the six-year-old Sunfire Blue Chip gelding downed 1-9 favouri...

For one of the first times all season, Mother Nature unloaded a day of rain for the 10-race card at Hippodrome 3R on Sunday (Sept. 18) as the track was downgraded to 'sloppy' with a four-second allowa...

Odds-on favourite Ernesto Delcruz commandeered his rivals and dominated to win the $55,700 Alberta Sires Stakes Maverick Final, a race for three-year-old pacing colts and geldings, on a stakes-packed ...

Voelz Delight failed to make the cut to Saturday’s Milton Stakes Final after finishing sixth in last week’s elimination round, but she dropped in class and cruised to a handy win in Friday’s $32,000 F...

The six-year-old Sunfire Blue Chip gelding St Lads Cash rocketed from the pocket to claim the $10,500 Preferred Handicap Pace at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Sunday night (Sept. 11).

Century Downs hosted three eliminations for the Marquis, a race for three-year-old pacing fillies, and three eliminations for the Maverick, a race for three-year-old pacing colts and geldings, on its ...

The Quebec Jockey Club and Standardbred Canada celebrated National Caretaker Appreciation Day at Hippodrome 3R during the Sunday, Sept. 4 afternoon program that featured a pair of Preferred events.

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...