No jockey ever looked less "Horsey" than Bob Lewis in old age. Bobby Lewis -- The Ovation which greeted Trivalve's win in the 1927 Melbourne Cup was not in honour of the champion colt, but for Bobby Lewis, the little jockey who rode him. Thousands of punters cheered and shouted, "We want Bobby," long after he had weighed , in. The applause persisted for so long that Lewis had to come out of the jockeys' room, walk to the enclosure fence and acknowledge the cheers. November 01, 1950.