Blake Shinn became the eighth jockey to ride a Melbourne Cup winner for master trainer Bart Cummings when he produced a brilliant tactical race on Viewed to narrowly hold out English-trained stayer Bauer in a desperate lunge to the line.Shinn, 21, who moved away from his family at Kilmore to pursue his career in Sydney where he won the jockeys' premiership last season, was very emotional after the nose victory.He joined Harry White (three times), Roy Higgins (twice), John Miller, John Duggan, Da

Blake Shinn became the eighth jockey to ride a Melbourne Cup winner for master trainer Bart Cummings when he produced a brilliant tactical race on Viewed to narrowly hold out English-trained stayer Bauer in a desperate lunge to the line.

Shinn, 21, who moved away from his family at Kilmore to pursue his career in Sydney where he won the jockeys' premiership last season, was very emotional after the nose victory.

He joined Harry White (three times), Roy Higgins (twice), John Miller, John Duggan, Darren Beadman, Steven King and John Marshall to win the great race for the 80-year-old living legend.

"To win for Mr Cummings who has been a loyal supporter of mine right throughout my career - I won my first big race on Accumulate in the (2005 VRC) St Leger for him - and to win the 250th Group One of his career means a lot," he said.

"I honestly don't really think this has sunk in. I can't believe it, it's one of the greatest moments in sport to ride the Melbourne Cup winner and to create history by riding the winner of the Melbourne Cup is just something I've dreamed of since I was a young kid," he said.

"I had my first big win in these colours for Mr Chin Nam when I was 17-years-old in the St Leger and four years later to win the Melbourne Cup ... he and Mr Cummings have stuck by me very solidly.

"To win the race for Mr Cummings, a living legend, is a great thrill and I think him very much for giving me the opportunity.

Shinn also thanked his mother Carol and his step father, Kilmore trainer Lee Hope.

"They got me to where I am today and I can't thank them enough," he said.

The jockey, who won his first Group One race as an apprentice aboard Demerger in the 2005 Adelaide Cup for trainer Danny O'Brien, was having his fifth Melbourne Cup ride, his previous best finish being eighth on Catchmeifyoucan.

He had a shocking spate of suspensions as an apprentice in Victoria but that did not stop him from winning the Scobie Breasley Medal in 2004-05, the same season he was runner-up to Nick Ryan for Melbourne's apprentices' title.

Another good win for Cummings and Dato'Tan Chin Nam during his apprenticeship days was a dead-heat aboard High Cee with Carael Boy in the 2005 Newcastle Cup.

Shinn accepted an invitation from Gai Waterhouse to ride for her powerful stable and landed his second Group One success aboard Sebring in this year's AJC Sires' Produce Stakes.

He missed the mount on the Golden Slipper-winning colt due to a careless riding suspension.

In landing his third Group One winner today, Shinn had Viewed on the fence in the run up the straight the first time but managed to get him one off approaching the winning post where he was in ninth place.

He had the Scenic five-year-old travelling beautifully in that spot until making his move on the home turn.

When the Aidan O'Brien trio of Septimus, Honolulu and Alessandro Volta were feeling the pinch, Shinn was going forward on the Brisbane Cup winner and kicked a couple of lengths clear of the field, lasting by the narrowest of margins to hold out the Geelong Cup winner Bauer, ridden by Corey Brown.

For Brown it was a shattering result after also finishing second aboard Mr Prudent in 2002 and a dead-heat for third aboard Lahar in 1999.