Bradford second-rower David Solomona ignored the Belle Vue boos to help condemn his old club Wakefield to a second engage Super League defeat in four days.

The New Zealand Test forward, who controversially quit the Wildcats at the end of last season, set up the game's first try for compatriot Lesley Vainikolo and scored the second to give the Bulls a flying start with a 12-0 lead inside 15 minutes.

When Vainikolo added a second, courtesy of a length-of-the-field run, in the final minute of the first half to give his side a 24-6 interval lead, the Wildcats looked set for another hammering following their 56-12 rout at Huddersfield on Good Friday.

They hit back early in the second half to briefly lift the hopes of the 9,106 crowd but Bradford finished strongly as they drew level with St Helens and Leeds at the top of the table.

Wakefield were a pale shadow of the team which beat last year's Grand Finalists St Helens and Hull in a dismal first half in which they fell down on the basics of the game.

Already without New Zealand international Shontayne Hape, the Bulls lost his replacement, James Evans, with a leg injury early in the game but Chris McKenna proved a useful third-choice centre and scored one of his side's six tries.

Vainikolo opened the scoring on 13 minutes, taking Solomona's inside pass and smashing through the flimsy home defence, and his second try on the stroke of half-time put the result beyond doubt.

Wakefield were pressing for a try that might have got them back in the game when Vainikolo intercepted Matt Blaymire's floated pass and enjoyed an uninterrupted 100-metre run to register the 139th try of his Bradford career.

In between, Solomona finished off good work from Evans to score against his former team-mates and also set up the position for hooker Ian Henderson to jink his way over for a solo try.

Wakefield's only response came from full-back Blaymire, who took Ben Jeffries' pass close to the line to plunge over for his fourth try of the season, to which Jamie Rooney added the conversion.

Wakefield centre Kevin Henderson, older brother of the Bradford hooker, restored respectability in the Henderson household when he took Jeffries' pass to touch down seven minutes into the second half and then winger Peter Fox won the race to Paul March's kick to the corner.

Rooney was wide with both goalkicks and they slipped further behind on 64 minutes when Bradford full-back Michael Platt went in for his ninth try of the season to make amends for a blunder in defence.

Fox claimed a second try for the home side before McKenna responded with Bradford's sixth try, but at least Wakefield had the final say when Rooney went over in injury time and he kicked his second goal.