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Fresh off winning last month’s $75,000 Easter Cup, 17-year-old junior driver Brodie Davis won the five-race BOTRA Claiming Novice Drivers Series held in Hobart on Sunday night.

Davis drove one winner, two placings, while another finished last in the four heats he contested.

“It’s a big thrill to win it. I had some good drives, and they all went well, so I’m thrilled,” Davis said.

His win came aboard the Paul Carlson-trained mare Sweet Amour ($3.30 fav) in heat two of the series.

Sweet Amour was positioned one out and one back for the final 1100m of the 1609m event before Davis peeled the mare three-wide at the top of the home straight to go on and score by 1.7m in a mile rate of 2:00.1s.

“I thought she would go pretty close.

“She travelled well and settled nicely and was able to get over the top of them late. She got the easiest run of the race and did no work to get there at all,” Davis said.

Other heat winners included Royal Appointment ($1.65 fav) for Kayleb Williams, Mister Finnigan ($7.00), who gave driver Tiarna Ford her 50th career win, Isolation for Charlie Castles and Olivia Weidenbach drove Remember Me Now to win the final heat.

Unfortunately, Malcom Jones was unable to take his place in the series after fracturing his leg playing football on Saturday. He was replaced on his drives by Jakob White.

Final points: Brodie Davis 47, Charlie Castles and Olivia Weidenbach 41, Kayleb Williams 40, Tiarna Ford 39, Jack Watson 29, Jacob Duggan 28, Andrew Freeman 26, Lachlan Dakin 24 and Jakob White 19.

Earlier in the night, Charlie Castles out-drove his concession claim when recording his 100th career win aboard in-form pacer Just Tiger ($2.20), whom he also trains.

In the Cavalor Equicare Elite Free For All, the Matthew Howlett-trained and driven Mickey Oh ($3.50) proved too tough for his rivals racing outside the leader. He went on to score by 1.6m over Diamonds And Cash ($41) and Colby Sanz ($91), running the mile in 1:55.4s.