{"id":280017,"date":"2025-11-12T17:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280017\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:55:12","slug":"jockey-jamie-melham-suspended-for-a-month-for-cup-day-incident-banned-for-30-race-meetings-blake-shinn-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280017\/","title":{"rendered":"Jockey Jamie Melham suspended for a month for Cup day incident, banned for 30 race meetings, Blake Shinn, what happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Jamie Melham has been suspended for a month \u2014 30 race meetings \u2014 for careless riding in a race on Cup day. <\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old South Australian, who rode Half Yours to a history-making victory in race seven at Flemington, pleaded guilty to a charge of careless riding in the Hong Kong Jockey Club Stakes \u2014 race nine. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the biggest Aussie sports &amp; the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgeneric-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-grc-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melham\u2019s horse, Fancify, bumped into Blake Shinn\u2019s mount She\u2019s Got Pizzazz, causing it to stumble, as Shinn was left worse for wear roughly 200 metres from the finish line. <\/p>\n<p>Shinn was treated on the track before being taken to hospital, where it was confirmed he\u2019d suffered a broken tibia and fibula. He will miss an extended period of riding. <\/p>\n<p>Racing Victoria found Melham allowed Fancify to shift out when not sufficiently clear of She\u2019s Got Pizzazz, causing the encroachment.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Melham had been widely celebrated in the racing industry for becoming the first female jockey to win the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup. <\/p>\n<p>She will now miss 30 race meetings starting this Sunday and running until December 18. It means Melham will be permitted to ride in Saturday\u2019s group 1 Orr Stakes meeting at Caulfield. <\/p>\n<p>Racing Victoria stewards released a report following its inquiry into the race. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRider Jamie Melham (Fancify) pleaded guilty to a charge of careless riding under the provisions of AR 131 (a), in that near the 200m, she permitted her mount to shift out when not sufficiently clear of She\u2019s Got Pizzazz that was bumped and stumbled, resulting in rider Blake Shinn being dislodged,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJamie Melham had her licence to ride in races suspended for 30 race meetings, with the period to commence on Sunday 16 November 2025, and expire on Wednesday 17 December 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Jamie Melham has been suspended for a month \u2014 30 race meetings \u2014 for careless&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,153756,139452,162213,162215,162214,13038,153363,23237,162211,162212,85],"class_list":["post-280017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blake-shinn","tag-broken-leg","tag-careless-riding","tag-celebrations-charge","tag-day-incident","tag-finish-line","tag-hong-kong-jockey-club-stakes","tag-horse-racing","tag-race-incident","tag-race-meetings","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280017","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=280017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}