{"id":279856,"date":"2025-11-12T16:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279856\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:17:26","slug":"melbourne-cup-winner-jamie-melham-suspended-for-careless-riding-blake-shinn-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279856\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Cup winner Jamie Melham suspended for careless riding, Blake Shinn injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star jockey Jamie Melham<\/a> has coped a hefty ban for an incident on Lexus Melbourne Cup<\/a> day which resulted in fellow rider Blake Shinn suffering an injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two races after her triumph on Half Yours in the race that stops the nation, Melham was on board Fancify in the Group 3 Hong Kong Jockey Club Stakes.<\/p>\n

At the 200-metre mark, Shinn was dislodged from his mount She’s Got Pizzazz, while the horse also briefly hit the Flemington turf before getting back to its feet.<\/p>\n

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Shinn broke his leg and will be out of action for a number of months and Melham will join him on the sidelines after the stewards’ verdict.<\/p>\n

She entered a guilty plea to careless riding and will be rubbed out for 30 meetings after stewards found she allowed Fancify to shift when not sufficiently clear of the other horse.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Melham has copped a suspension \u00a0Nine\/Getty<\/p>\n

“She’s Got Pizzazz that was bumped and stumbled, resulting in rider Blake Shinn being dislodged,” the report said.<\/p>\n

“In assessing penalty, account was taken of her guilty plea, good record, that it was a Group 3 event and the incident resulted in a rider being dislodged.”<\/p>\n

Melham’s ban will begin on November 16 and run through until December 17. <\/p>\n

The 29-year-old became just the second female jockey to win Australia’s great race<\/a> after Michelle Payne<\/a>, while also etching her name into the history books as the first woman to complete the rare Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star jockey Jamie Melham has coped a hefty ban for an incident on Lexus Melbourne Cup day which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-279856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}