JUNEE teenager Grace Fahy will be hoping for an early birthday present when she enjoys her first race drive at Leeton on Tuesday night.
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Fahy will enjoy her 17th birthday on Wednesday and would love nothing more than to celebrate with a win at her first night in the sulky.
Fahy has been working for Junee trainer Trevor White for two years but only recently finished year 11 and joined the stable full-time.
After gaining her driver's licence only recently, Fahy has wasted no time getting to the races with White putting her aboard Western Style and Norms Courage at Leeton.
"I'm very excited, I'm also very nervous, but I'm looking forward to it," Fahy said.
Fahy was brought up around showriding and enjoyed campdrafting but watched with interest Miranda McLaughlin's success in the sport.
"I'm good friends with her through school and I was needing a job so I messaged her. She said come up and see if you like it. I went up there one day and stayed there, I guess," Fahy explained.
A group of family and friends will make the trip to Leeton to support Fahy. It works out well, being the first meeting back open to the general public at Leeton.
"I'll have a few people there, they've all been waiting for my first drive," she said.
Western Style has drawn the inside of the second row in the second race, while Norms Courage is drawn gate two in race seven. Fahy has high hopes for both pacers.
"I drive both of them at work quite often and I've trialled both of them a few times," she said.
"Western Style, I've won a couple of trials on him, he's a good horse. He's a bit of a funny horse, I'm not sure how I'll go on him but I should be right, he's a good horse.
"Norms Courage, he works good at home, I've only trialled him once but I'll have to ask Trev what he wants me to do with him because he's drawn good but I'm not sure what he'll want me to do."
Regardless of how the two go, Fahy is enjoying her foray into harness racing.
"It's still pretty new to me but I'm liking it," she said.
"It's pretty different from the riding side that I've always known. It's crazy being behind them."
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