by Brian J. Mazurek, for Buffalo Raceway

Hamburg, NY — Hot Patootie cooled off the field in thefeatured $8,200 pace for the mares at Buffalo Raceway on Wednesday night (May10) by going wire-to-wire and breezing to a easy 2-1/4 length win over Sandy DeVie in 1:55.0.

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Hot Patootie cruised to an easy Buffalo Raceway win on Wednesday.

With the usual front-running Deliciouslynaughty scratchedfrom the event sick, it enabled Hot Patootie (Drew Monti) to get an uncontestedlead from the pylons while the rest of the field dropped into line quickly inpost position order.

With fractions of 28.4, 57.3 and 1:26.3 over the fast track,Hot Patootie ($6.00) had nothing but clear sailing down the stretch as thereminder of the field failed to mount any kind of threat. The favored Sandy DeVie (Jim Morrill Jr.) took the place position while Squeeze This (Ron BebackJr.) won the battle for third.

Owned by David Crumb and trained by Joe Skowyra, HotPatootie (Hot Pans-Getting Better) is a 5-year-old mare that now has fourvictories in 15 attempts in 2017. The win moved her seasonal earnings to$13,478 and $76,667 lifetime.

Monti, after posting a six-bagger on Saturday night,remained hot with four more victories while Stalbaum added a triple.

Racing will continue on Friday evening at Buffalo Racewaywith an 11-race program slated for 5 p.m.