Blake Shinn is an Australian jockey, whose first big win was the 2008 Melbourne Cup on Viewed.
Shinn grew up in Kilmore, Victoria being born to a family of saddlers.
He was the winner of the Racing Victoria Limited 2005 Scobie Breasley Medal.
On Melbourne Cup day 2010, Blake Shinn missed his ride in the cup on Precedence, after a fall in Race 3 at Flemington resulted in him being taken to hospital. He was replaced by James Winks.
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“Acts themselves alone are history.... Tell me the acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish! All that is not action is not worth reading.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)