Hippodrome 3R will feature a weekend of harness racing action with cards on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons, Oct. 7 & 8.

The special Saturday card at 3R starts at 1 p.m. 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 and trainers in Quebec will get to race for the first time at 3R and many of the races also feature trainers getting in the sulky and driving their own horses.

There are also two special races on Saturday, one for just women drivers and the other is just for amateur drivers.

To view the entries, click the following link: Saturday Entries - Hippodrome 3R.

Then, on Sunday, the nine-race card gets underway at 12 noon.

A real slugfest is in store for racing fans Sunday in the sixth race Preferred Pace where return winners GA Speed Gaby (pictured above) takes on DGs De Vito.

GA Speed Gaby starts from post five for driver Francis Picard. The seven-year-old son of Windfall Blue Chip is on a four-race win streak for trainer David Pilon and owner Josee Patry of Saint-Henri De Levis, Que.

A five-time winner this season, he is moving up to the Preferred class for the first time. In recent weeks, he has shown the ability to win from on or off the pace and has a lifetime mark taken at 3R of 1:54.2 taken three starts back.

DGs De Vito and driver Jonathan Lachance enter the race off a 1:55.2 score last week. The son of Sportswriter notched his fourth win of the season for trainer Guylaine Fortin and owner-breeder Daniel Surprenant of Saint-Valentin, Que.

Another contender in the field is Partyintheshadows from post four for driver Robert Shepherd. Shepherd, who is usually the regular driver of GA Speed Gaby, elected to drive Partyintheshadows for this race. Both horses are trained by Pilon.

Partyintheshadows has been racing in Ontario and tied his lifetime mark this year with a 1:52 clocking at Rideau Carleton.

For more information and free race programs, visit hippodrome3r.ca. To view the entries for Sunday, click the following link: Sunday Entries - Hippodrome 3R.

(with files from the Quebec Jockey Club)