The second-richest day of 2026 racing at Harrah's Philadelphia will take place this Sunday as the track presents a trio of $100,000 Invitationals for older campaigners, as well as multiple divisions of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Stakes for 3-year-old pacers. Yannick Gingras, who co-owns the track record with 10 winners on a single card, will have multiple opportunities to shine, including with the likely heavy favorite in the Maxie Lee Invitational Trot. Swedish import Antognoni, who Gingras co-owns with Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi and FAC Racing, drew post four in the Maxie Lee and is riding a five-race winning streak dating back to 2025. Along the way he has beaten many of Sunday's rivals and even took down Trotter of the Year Lexus Kody in his last start on May 2. "I still think Lexus Kody is the best trotter in the country," said Gingras when asked if Antognoni had taken over as the top dog in the division. "[Lexus Kody is] just not fully healthy right now. And, you know, he's a big horse. I don't think one or two starts defines them and if you remember last year, you didn't really get good till July or so." While Gingras was quick to shower praise on Lexus Kody, he fully recognizes the spot that Antognoni is in on Sunday and his place as the horse to beat against seven rivals in that 11th race field. "On a smaller track, I definitely wouldn't trade Antognoni for anybody," said Gingras. "I'm going to race him like he's the best. "He's so handy this year. Last year, sometimes he could be a little bit aggressive, and we raced him from behind more often than not, by design, just because of that. So far this year he's been beautiful to handle." The main competition in the field for Antognoni is fellow Swedish-bred Aetos Kronos, who captured this race in 2025 from an inside post. This time, he'll have to overcome post eight after a gutsy second-place finish behind Periculum in the Cutler Memorial at the Meadowlands on May 16. Antognoni wasn't eligible to the Cutler because the connections were hoping to make the trek to Sweden for the May 31 Elitlopp at Solvalla Racecourse, but financially the trip became unreasonable since the connections would've needed to foot the entire bill to make the trip and local officials weren't able to shoulder some of the load. ► Sign up for our FREE DRF Harness Digest Newsletter While he won't be favored, Gingras has a very live drive in the 12th race, the Betsy Ross Invitational for fillies and mares. He picked up Rodeo Drive Deo when David Miller made the decision to return to Ohio and thus far things have gone well, with a neck victory in 1:49 4/5 at Pocono Downs to open her season. "She looks like a tank. She's big and strong," said Gingras. "She won easily the other day. It may show a neck victory, but she did it well in-hand." As good as she is right now, the career winner of just over $1 million has a tall task ahead with Dan Patch-winning 3-year-old, now 4, Miki And Minnie just to her inside in post six with Dexter Dunn at the lines. She has blown out consecutive qualifying wins, with the latest a 1:52 1/5 score at the Meadowlands on May 15. "Obviously, she's got a tough post now and there are some nice mares in there, so we'll see what happens," said Gingras, who admitted he's not expecting to take an overly aggressive approach but left open a small window to change his mind. "You know how I am. If nobody leaves, then we'll go, but I think I see some speed in this race, so maybe we'll come from the back. We'll decide behind the gate." While some may think that Rodeo Drive Deo has a conditioning edge because she has a pari-mutuel start under her belt, Gingras doesn't see it that way. "Trainers like Chris Ryder, Ron Burke and a lot of them, they know what they're doing. These horses show up ready. Chris wouldn't put her in for $100,000 if he thought that she wasn't ready," said Gingras. Perhaps Gingras' weakest hand in the trio of $100,000 Invitationals is with Bythemissal in the Joseph Auger Memorial (Race 13). That said, the now 7-year-old did win this race last year, and he is drawn nicely in post three for trainer Ron Burke, who sends out all three of the Gingras-driven horses. Bythemissal was a closing second at The Meadows in an Open Handicap to start his year and never got into the race from the far outside in the Pacey Mindlin Memorial at Miami Valley last time on May 2. Gingras will sit behind him for the first time since October. "I'm not too sure what to expect," said Gingras about the career winner of over $2.5 million. "Last year he was inconsistent. He went in 1:46 4/5 [Canadian Pacing Derby elimination], and he did it really easy that day. He just didn't bounce back. And after that, he wasn't quite as good. I do believe he still has it. It's just a matter of if we can find some consistency in him and get him healthy enough for him to be consistent for an extended period of time. I guess we'll see how he is on Sunday. "I think we'll be looking to race him on the back end of the race and hopefully he puts up a good performance." While lacking a couple of the potential top players, the Auger drew a strong field that includes $1.6 million winner Coaches Corner (post one), FanDuel and Canadian Pacing Derby winner Maximus Miki (post four) and $1.2 million earner Ken Hanover (post eight). One top open pacer who isn't in the Auger field is Captain Optimistic. The Nancy Takter trainee has been servicing mares this year while preparing to race and looked no worse for the task, blowing out a powerful 1:48 1/5 win over the Harrah's Philadelphia surface on Sunday. Takter said she declined the invite – citing his age (4) and the fact that his regular drivers Scott Zeron and Jason Bartlett already had assignments in the race – to instead race in the fifth race $50,000 #SendItIn versus a somewhat softer group. For Gingras, his day won't be confined to just the Invitationals as he'll be picking up a catch-drive on Another C Note in the second of three $37,335 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes slated as Race 10, which also kicks off the $10,000 guaranteed Pick 4. Another C Note is perfect in six starts this year, including wins in the first two legs of the Sire Stakes series. "I raced him last year. I liked him actually, but he definitely surprised everybody coming back this year. Nobody expected him to win six straight. He was good in the stallion series but not quite good enough for the Sire Stakes last year," said Gingras. "Right now he looks like he's one of the better ones that Ronnie [Burke] has in the Sire Stakes, whereas earlier I thought he had four or five better ones than him. "I think on Sunday he's in a great spot. Obviously for him, it's all systems go," continued Gingras. "For sure it's exciting to pick up a horse that hasn't been beaten yet this year. We'll look to keep it that way." Gingras also has Al Papi in the final Sire Stakes split in race 14. "He qualified so good his first time. He was actually super and I couldn't not have been happier. The second time he wasn't quite as good. And then when I raced him at the Meadows, it was a good mile, but I thought he'd have more. He felt really, really good coming up the last turn but he kind of flattened out a little bit late, and he did the same thing on Timmy [Tetrick] the other day. I know they weren't really happy with how he was health-wise and stuff, but I think he'll be better Sunday. "I hope they're able to turn him around quite soon because the big races are coming. The goal is obviously not this Sunday. We're going to try to race him and try to get a good start in him, but be mindful that there's big races down the road, too. I definitely think he's one of the contenders this year, so it's just a matter of getting him to turn the corner in a positive direction." Post time for the 15-race mostly stakes card at Harrah's Philadelphia Sunday is 12:40 P.M. (EDT).