HAMBURG, N.Y. --- City Kid showed he's not afraid of doing
the dirty work, literally.
For the second straight week, City Kid ($3.40) trudged
around the sloppy Buffalo Raceway half mile oval and took the $8,200 featured
trot on Friday evening (April 7).
After scoring an impressive 3-1/4 length win last week in
the off going, City Kid (Larry Stalbaum) spanked the field this time around,
registering an easy eight length victory in 2:00.0. Lucky Pablo (David McNeight
III) was second with The Bronx Bumper (Jim Morrill Jr.) finishing in third.
Firing to the lead off the gate, City Kid had no resistance
in putting up fractions of 28.1, 57.4 and 1:28.0.
With a quarter mile to trot, City Kid opened up an
insurmountable 10-length advantage on the field and never looked back in the
stretch.
Owned by Marissa Russo and trained by David Russo, the 9-year-old
gelded City Kid (Cincinnati Kid-Salagadoola) has now won five times in 12
seasonal attempts. The victory pushed his 2017 earnings to $24,174 and $212,764
lifetime.
Stalbaum, Buffalo Raceway's leading driver, continued to
pile up victories as he found his way to the winner's circle four more times.
20-year-old provisional driver Jim McNeight Jr. added a triple while Jim
McNeight conditioned the three winners driven by his son.
Racing will continue on Saturday night with 12 races set to
go to the post starting at 6 p.m.
