21 March 2023 | HRNSW MEDIA | AMANDA RANDO
With a winning strike rate of 20 per cent this season young driver James Locke is on track to having his best year yet.
The 18-year-old has driven 19 winners so far and last season was his best result, ending the term with 32 victories.
Locke heads to Menangle today for three drives, all on trotters. His first assignment is with Jungle Eyes, a trotter that has won his last three starts with two of those victories guided by Locke.
He will then drive Giddy Up Eyes in race two. The mare has provided Locke with two wins this season.
Locke’s final drive on the program is with Pharisee. In that same event, race three, young reinswoman Ashley Hart will have her first drive for the season behind the Jack Trainor-prepared Itz Trixton Time.
Hart, the older sister of top NSW driver Cameron Hart, drove her last winner in September behind the trotter Bacardi Barmaid.
The iForm best bets for Tuesday:
Menangle best bet
Race 1: Jungle Eyes (5)
In dazzling form presently and can make it four straight.
Menangle next best
Race 5: Has The Courage (9)
Can stake a claim going better than his form suggests against stronger opposition.
Around the tracks
Junee best bet
Race 6: Smokin Pocket (1)
Kept trying hard last time, looks hard to catch.
Play the exotic
The Menangle quaddie
Race 4: 5-6-7-9
Race 5: 4-3-9
Race 6: 4
Race 7: 2
$12 for 100%
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