Celebrated jockey Jamie Melham has been suspended for a month for her part in a Melbourne Cup day fall that left fellow rider Blake Shinn with a broken leg.

Melham pleaded guilty to a charge of careless riding in the Hong Kong Jockey Club Stakes at Flemington after her horse Fancify bumped into Shinn’s mount She’s Got Pizzazz and caused it to stumble.

Shinn came crashing to the turf about 200 metres from the finish line in the ninth race of the day and, after being tended to by on-course medics for 20 minutes, was taken to hospital for surgery on a broken tibia and fibula.

The fall happened just two races after Melham made history as the first female jockey to win the Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double.

Her suspension will start this Sunday and run until Thursday, December 18. She wi

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