Chester, PA — Driver Yannick Gingras and trainer Ron Burke swept the four features on the Thursday (Dec. 23) card at Harrah’s Philadelphia.

The Father Patrick gelding Patriarch Hanover stepped home in :57.2 to complete a 1:55.2 victory in the featured $16,200 top-level trot, winning by 1-1/4 lengths over $800,000-winning pocket sitter Fashion Creditor and the late-flying Baldaquin. A six-figure winner in his 2-, 3- and 4-year-old seasons, Patriarch Hanover now sports a bankroll of $382,326 for Burke Racing Stable LLC and Weaver Bruscemi LLC, Bill Switala and James Martin.

Tokyo Seelster, who joined the Burke Brigade in early November, also won on the front end, speeding home in :57 to lower his lifetime mark to 1:54.3 in one of two $15,300 co-features. The 3-year-old Kadabra colt withstood a determined favorite in Redwhite N Goo by three-quarters of a length for owners by Michael and Sam Sergi.

The only member of the victorious Team Gingras-Burke quartet who did not control the throttle was the Guccio gelding Bluebird Rocky, who circled from second-over late on the far turn then chased down leader Bountiful Britney to win the other $15,300 co-headliner by a length in 1:55.3 for the Burke Racing Stable LLC and Weaver Bruscemi LLC.

Gingras and Burke also took the sub-feature for the fast-class set, a $13,000 contest, with local newcomer Hat Trick Marleau. The Crazed gelding took a new mark of 1:55.1, also using the front end and holding off pocket sitter Wings Of Speed by three-quarters of a length. Gingras also co-owns the winner with Frank Canzone.

Gingras wound up with five winners on the card altogether.

A trio of $14,400 contests, one each for trotters, male pacers, and female pacers, top the Christmas Eve (Friday, Dec. 24) card at Harrah’s Philadelphia, which will have a special post time of 12 noon. Program pages for the pre-holiday card are available at the PHHA website.