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shake-up in competition, flinging the doors open and offering a fighting chance to all takers. Mr. Cockburn took the opportunity to retire the Ben Venue trophy by booting home wife Chrissy’s aptly-named Hillbilly Beau.
When early leader Indonesia, Bill Osier up, made a mistake and came to grief at the ninth, Rob Banner and Body Music inherited the lead. Casanova winner Big Nado loomed a danger landing from the 12th, but he slipped in the roughened, downhill going and popped rider Henry Wood loose.
Body Music held on to his dwindling lead courageously, but found the winner and the final climb too much and faded to third, with Fluorite getting up for second.
Chrissy Cockburn’s Thanks Henry won the same event in 1993, and her Captain Navarre in 1992, earning the attractive silver bowl permanently through Hillbilly Beau’s victory. It was clear in the horse’s demeanor, however, that jump racing is far down on his list of talents.
“I don’t think he jumped one fence well,” exclaimed Mr. Cockburn’s father-in-law Gordon Keyes after the gelding’s surprising, five-length score.
“Yeah he did, one or two,” of 14 fences, Mr. Cockburn added with a wistful chuckle. “I wasn't quite sure he’d stay up He’s not the greatest jumper. He does seem to have a fifth leg, though.”
A 7-year-old son of Dickens Hill, Hillbilly Beau is a far from fluid jumper with much to learn about consistency. A tribute to his own riding skills, Mr. Cockburn laughed that winning in the horse’s first jumping start was “the worst thing that could have happened. Now we’ll have to run him again.”
Though the ladies’ timber race scratched down to three starters, the trio of entrants made up the most evenly matched field of the day. Duke Kahana Moku won the 2 1/2 mile event for owner-rider Beth Newman
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