Two-time Quebec-Bred Stakes champion Boomboom Tonight is back.
Back in action for the first time since winning his second championship title in September 2024, Boomboom Tonight made his successful return to the races in the second leg of the Series Quebecoises for older pacers on Sunday, June 21 at Hippodrome 3R.
Boomboom Tonight handed popular opening-leg winner Bets Beach his first loss of the season with a 1:54.4 career-best performance in the $6,000 male division. With Pascal Berube driving the 1-5 favourite, Francis Picard picked up the catch-drive on Boomboom Tonight and made a push for the lead with the five-year-old gelding from the middle of the gate, making front by the quarter pole in :27.2. From there, Boomboom Tonight cruised through fractions of :56.2 and 1:25.3 unopposed then held 1-1/2-length clear as the late-closing Bets Beach tried to reel him in. Boomboom Tonight paid $12 to win as the 5-1 second choice. The rest of the field finished more than 10 lengths in arrears, with Thrilling Times (William Roy) rounding out the top three.
Boomboom Tonight (Sportswriter-Rapid Tonight) has won all but two of his starts at the Trois-Rivières, Que. oval and is now 11-for-19 lifetime with just over $90,000 in earnings for trainer, owner and breeder Elisabeth Pothier of St-Christophe-D'Arthabask, Que.,
Whitemountaincammy and Kiss Me Bad earned their first victories of the year in a pair of $6,000 divisions for the mares.
Whitemountaincammy looped the gapping pocket-sitter after the first lap then took aim at the popular pacesetter, defeating that opening-leg winner Silver Majesty (Denis St. Pierre) in the stretch by 1-1/2 lengths for the 28-1 upset in 1:57.4. Marie-Claude Auger drove the eight-year-old Yankee Cam-Elite D H mare to the victory in her seventh start this year for trainer Louis Philippe Turcotte and owner/breeder Yves Gaudet of Notre Dame Des Bois, Que. Better Kissthe Men (Simon Delisle) was third.
The Daniel Mondou-trained Kiss Me Bad, last year's series champ and the beaten favourite in round one of the renewal, delivered on her pari-mutuel promise this time in 1:58. With her owner Steven Gagnon back in the bike, the 10-year-old Badlands Hanover-Helen Of Troy mare attacked pacesetter Shanghaibluebeach (Jocelyn Gendron) from the pocket mid-race and won the front-end fight in the stretch, pulling 1-1/4 lengths clear in her third start of the season. Mach N Cheddar (David Pilon) finished third.
To view Sunday's harness racing results, click the following link: Sunday Results - Hippodrome 3R.
(Standardbred Canada)