Raymond Pouliot took up dog sled racing at a young age and gained nation-wide attention in March 1927 by winning a 10-mile race in his native Quebec at the age of only 16. He was a proflic figure in the sport in the late 1920s and early 1930s, particularly in the Eastern International Dog Sled Derby, in which he had participated as early as 1926, when he finished seventh. Perhaps his most notable appearance, however, came in the dog sled racing demonstration event at the 1932 Winter Olympics, where he placed sixth in a field of thirteen entrants. By career he worked at his family business, the Taverne Royale in his home town of Quebec City.