If Our Billy Blue was a human being, Paul Cave says he would be the class clown.But the trainer is hoping the application of a one-eyed blinker for the first time at Canterbury on Wednesday can switch Our Billy Blue on to make him focus on the task at hand.Our Billy Blue returned with a first-up win on the Kensington track last month but Cave still wants to see the gelding race more professionally before he entertains thoughts of starting him in better quality races."I just want to give him a co

If Our Billy Blue was a human being, Paul Cave says he would be the class clown.

But the trainer is hoping the application of a one-eyed blinker for the first time at Canterbury on Wednesday can switch Our Billy Blue on to make him focus on the task at hand.

Our Billy Blue returned with a first-up win on the Kensington track last month but Cave still wants to see the gelding race more professionally before he entertains thoughts of starting him in better quality races.

"I just want to give him a couple of kills because when he races up to them he tends to wander a bit," Cave said.

"We're hoping to rectify that tomorrow because he's racing in a one-eyed blinker.

"The horse has got the ability to race in some decent races but he's got to overcome that sort of behaviour first because when you get into the better races you can't do those sorts of things because they don't hang about."

Our Billy Blue was too good for his rivals on February 25 over 1400m, racing down the outside of the Kensington track to a length win in the Benchmark 75 event.

It was his first city success and he will be out to repeat that performance in Wednesday's TJ's Champagne Bar Handicap (1550m).

"He has pulled up a treat (from his first-up win)," Cave said.

"He was like a time bomb this morning, he's ready to go again."

Cave has used the near-cup blinker on Our Billy Blue in trackwork ahead of Wednesday's race.

The trainer says the gelding, who will be ridden by apprentice Nathan Berry, needs to switch on in order to fulfil his potential on the track.

"He's a bit of a clown," the experienced horseman said.

"If he was a human being in the class he'd be the school comedian.

"In his trackwork he is quite a character, if he is out on the track and there is nobody about then he behaves, but if he has got an audience he's liable to do something stupid.

"Then when they play up he thinks it's great. I've never met a horse like him."

Meanwhile, top jockey Corey Brown was expecting to be fit to ride at Canterbury after being injured in a mishap in the tie-up stalls at the Randwick barrier trials last Friday when an unraced horse he had just mounted took fright and flipped over.

Brown's manager Brett Grant said the jockey, who missed Chipping Norton Stakes day, was set to have a remedial massage on Tuesday afternoon as part of his recovery from the soreness and bruising he sustained in the incident.

"At this stage we've accepted rides for him so he is hoping to be there," Grant said.

Chief steward Ray Murrihy said Brown would need to provide a medical clearance in order to fulfil his engagements.