NYSS 3-Year-Old Colt Trotters At Buffalo

[Elgin]

The first $70,000 leg for 3-year-old trotting colts at Buffalo went to the Credit Winner colt Delano. The race, despite the winner equaling the all-age track record of 56.3, came across as a Marx Brothers production. It was only a six horse field but three of them jumped at various points during the race. The 4-5 favorite, War Cry Hall, broke to the quarter for Jim Morrill, taking a lot of dollars with him. Schnittker jumped on that miscue by opening up fifteen lengths on the field with Delano, and the second place colt, Mado Dream, was up by ten on the colt trailing him. The NYSS has now been in existence for almost fifty years and they

[Elgin]

Archanger, a very good Credit Winner colt, won the second division by eight at 1-9 for Morrill. He and Delano are both staked to the Hambletonion. The exacta, with Ray Schnittker's 30-1 Slugfest finishing second, paid $19.80 and the $1 tri, with 30-1 Turbulent Flight finishing third for Charlie Norris, paid  $36. 25.

The announcer, who must make the ML, noted that he made Archangel 3-5, but someone changed it to 5-2.