Trois-Rivieres, QC – At the Facebook Live post-position draw Wednesday afternoon for the Super Sunday race card Sunday (Sept. 27) at the Hippodrome 3R, Claude Levesque, Chairman of the Quebec Jockey Club, announced that four additional Friday race dates have been added to the 2020 schedule.
It was welcome news at the H3R Quebec City OTB where the press conference was held.
"The Quebec Jockey Club is pleased that despite Covid-19 not allowing spectators at the track to view and wager on live racing," Levesque said. "The increases in simulcast wagering have been very strong and that the horse people in Quebec will enjoy four extra days of live racing this year."
H3R was to conclude live racing on Friday's on October 9 and will now add four more Friday's, October 16, 23, 30 and November 6.
"There are two conditions to the extra four days of racing," Levesque added. "That the bars and therefore the betting houses we have are not closed by Public Health. And second is that there are obviously enough horses to fulfill these additional programs."
Post time on Fridays is 4:00 pm and Sundays at 1:00 pm. For more information, visit www.hippodrome3r.ca.
From the Quebec Jockey Club