trainer. For the second straight year the duo teamed up to win a Group 1, this time with Rock Kingdom in the Group 1 Epsom Handicap. The victory was one of 60 victories that year for the young jockey - including 12 stakes with 33 additional placings in the sport. Shinn has continued to ride for the stable in recent years as a freelance jockey. His winners with the Waterhouse stable since his return include champion English and Group 1 winners Prompt Response, Sweet Idea, Pornichet, and the opportunity to partner Fiorente in the Group 1 Cox Plate. Melbourne Cup Win In 2008 the then 21YO led to his already sizeable resume when winning his first Melbourne Cup aboard Viewed, edging out Bauer in a photo finish. The victory gave the legendary Bart Cummings his 12th Melbourne Cup winner and fourth for the partnership of Cummings and Dato Tan Chin Nam. It was a fitting victory with Cummings celebrating the 50th anniversary of saddling his first Melbourne Cup runner in that year's race. "To win the Melbourne Cup for a living legend in the sport is a great honour and I thank him very much for giving me the opportunity," Shinn told the Sydney Morning Herald. "I can't believe it. It's one of the greatest moments in sport, to be able to ride the Melbourne Cup winner." BETTING DISQUALIFICATION 15 Month Suspension In late 2010, Shinn was involved in a stewards' inquiry into betting on horse racing. After pleading guilty to right charges, Shinn was handed a 12-month riding ban while Peter Robl, Elaine Robl and Shinn's mother Carol Shinn were also charged with a breach of the Australian Rules of racing at the hearing as part of the scandal. Stewards also banned him for an additional three months for using his cellphone in the jockeys' room at Hawkesbury at one meet to place a bet. Shinn appealed the ban and while the appeal was dismissed, the Appeals Panel ruled that the three month cell phone ban be served concurrently to his gambling ban. While he was banned, he received help for his gambling addiction and returned to race riding on the 21st of December, 2011, after complications from an injury stalled his comeback by a month. Riding Tellora, trained by his stepfather and co-owned by his mother, in his second race since his return, Shinn piloted home the filly to win by seven lengths. Comeback In January 2012, Shinn showed he was truly back from both the ban and injury when he won three races from four starters in one week at Canterbury and Warwick Farm. The following month he returned to the winner's circle in a group race aboard the aptly named Upbeat in the Group 2 Caulfield Autumn Classic for trainer Anthony Cummings followed by a Group 2 victory a few months later on Skyerush. Though he missed a large chunk of the season, Shinn was still able to win 42 races and place in an additional 84. The following season the jockey was back in the full swing of things with 11 stakes wins, including his first post-ban Group 1 victory on Appearance in the Coolmore Classic. Though Shinn rode for familiar names such as Anthony Cummings and Gai Waterhouse that year, most of his mounts came from his mentor Guy Walter with the pair teaming up to win or place in 89 of the 164 races they ran in. Their final stakes win together came in the Group 1 Doomben Cup with Streama - Shinn's second Group 1 on the mare - five days before