Trevor White is looking to build momentum heading into Junee’s biggest night of the year.
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White will line up four horses on his hometrack on Saturday night.
Leading the charge is last-start winner Impertinent Boy.
Impertinent Boy hasn't missed a placing in four starts this season, to go along with a win and a placing since he joined the Junee horseman’s team last season.
The son of Grinfromeartoear spent nine months off the track after having a bone chips removed.
However, it hasn’t been an issue since.
“He pulled up lame after he won at Leeton last season and found he had a little chipped bone,” White said.
“He had to have three months off after getting the little chip taken out of him.
“It’s not worrying him at all now.”
White expects he will have a tougher test after drawing barrier six in the first of the Milbrae Quarries heats.
He is looking to ensure Impertinent Boy qualifies for the $9000 final next week.
“He’s been racing pretty good but the draw won’t help much,” White said. “He should go pretty good.”
White’s nephew Cameron Hart will take the drive.
White will also debut a new acquisition Prince Kai, who was claimed from Penrith earlier this month.
It has been almost two years since Prince Kai won a race and White isn’t sure how he will adapt to Riverina racing.
“He might go alright,” he said.
“We haven’t had him long but he seemed to work good on Wednesday and he ran a pretty good race at Penrith last week.”
Prince Kai has won over $150,000 throughout his 152-start career, but hasn’t been first past the post since winning at Menangle in March 2015.
White will take the reins on Real Elegance, who won at Wagga two starts back, but proved last time she can be more than a handful at the start.
Another of his nephews, Chris Judd, will drive Like A Bentley who struck trouble on her debut but White said has trialled well since.
The meeting is part of the lead up to Junee’s Carnival of Cups meeting on Australia Day.
The $14,000 Junee Pacers Cup is the feature race of Thursday night but there will also three legs of the City v Country Invitational Drivers Challenge.
A stellar group of city drivers will assemble with Chris Geary, David Morris, Todd McCarthy, Pete McMullen and Mark Pitt to take on the country representatives Blake Jones, Tom Gilligan, Reece Maguire, Peter McRae and Hart.
