Quebec Racing

Quebec Purse Estimates Boosted

October 03, 2012

Hoping to give a lift to Quebec’s much-shrunken breeding industry in 2013, the Quebec Jockey Club is boosting purse estimates and changing some of the eligibility criteria for its stakes programs.

Racing Returns To Hippodrome 3R

September 09, 2012

The harness racing meet at Hippodrome 3R kicked off with a bang on Sunday as Montreal Phil destroyed the all-age track record with a 1:53.4 triumph during the afternoon card.

Racing Set To Return To Trois-Rivieres

September 03, 2012

After a four-year hiatus, Hippodrome Trois-Rivieres will reopen Sunday, September 9 with a new name, new ownership and a new mission: to give the Quebec horse-racing industry a foundation for a new be...

Yves Filion On 'Rebeka,' Ontario Situation

August 17, 2012

Rebeka Bayama carries the Bayama Farms banner into Friday’s $218,850 Golden Girls at the Meadowlands Racetrack. And for owner and breeder Yves Filion, his pacing mare conjures memories of his top hors...

More OTB Options In Quebec

The Quebec Jockey Club opened its second off-track betting parlour on Monday at the former HippoClub in Boucherville, just south of Montreal.

Racing Returning To Ormstown After 10 Years

The steady beat of hooves and the exciting rush of horse racing is set to make its return to the Ormstown Fairgrounds after a 10-year absence with a stop on the Circuit Regional des Courses de Chevaux...

Quebec Simulcasting Turns Big Corner

“There wasn’t a day when I wasn’t asked by somebody when we’d have the races again.”

Quebec Teletheatres Set To Open

The Quebec Jockey Club will open its first teletheatre, at Place Dupuis in downtown Montreal, in a matter of days, with two others due to open before the end of July and another two in September, QJC ...

Race Dates Set For Trois-Rivières

To revive and revitalize the horse racing industry in Quebec, the Quebec Jockey Club (QJC) is proud to annouce that it has completed the deal to acquire the Hippodrome Trois-Rivières

Deal For Trois-Riveres Complete

Quebec's harness racing industry now has a permanent base. Two months after announcement of an agreement in principle, the non-profit Quebec Jockey Club has closed the deal to acquire Hippodrome Troi...

Hippodrome De Quebec Hosts Final Card

Driver Pierre Luc Roy and Lizo Maggs, a five-year-old pacing mare trained and owned by Normand Plourde, went into the books as the final winners at Hippodrome de Quebec as the track wrote the final ch...

Teletheatres Back On In Quebec

It took more than two years, but the Quebec Jockey Club finally has legislative clearance for rule changes it needed to rebuild a teletheatre network in Quebec