Final round Future Stars Series at Hippodrome 3R

The final preliminary round of the Future Stars Series for two-year-olds takes place Sunday afternoon at the Hippodrome 3R with two $8,000 harness racing divisions for the pacing colts and fillies.

Returning to H3R for Sunday’s program is three-time O’Brien Award winning driver, Louis-Philippe Roy, who drives in eight of the ten races on the program. He has also returned to drive his own colt, Aladdin Du Lau, who goes in the second race.

After Sunday’s program, the top eight point-earners in both the Future Stars Series and the Breeders Trophy Series, return to H3R on Sunday, September 12 for Super Sunday that will feature four $60,000 finals for the three-year-olds and four $50,000 finals for the two-year-olds.

The pacing colts are first on the track in the second race.

Mohawk Park invader HP Momentum (post 6) could be the horse to beat, having raced his last two starts in Ontario. He may have finished 4th and 5th but was timed in 1:53.4 and 1:54. The son of Control The Moment will be driven by Jocelyn Gendron for trainer Jean Tourigny.

Ritchie Alpha (post 5) sports three wins and is coming off a lifetime best 2:01.4 triumph, Persistant Boy (post 7) is on a two-race win streak and won a Future Stars prelim in 1:59.4 and Kaporal (post 4) won his last start in the series in 1:59.1.

The fillies will duke it out in the fourth race where Sunjet Ray (post 5) heads the field with Louis-Philippe Roy in the sulky. Although winless in two starts, the Sunshine Beach daughter was second in 1:58.3 in her last start. She hails from the Francis Richard barn.

She will be facing Streakayococo (post 2) for driver Samuel Fillion and they are coming off a 2:00.2 triumph in the series. She is sired by Artspeak for trainer Dany Fontaine.

First race post time Sunday at 12:10 pm. A free race program is available by clicking here.

By Steve Wolf, for the Quebec Jockey Club