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'Cheeky' Australian jockey loses his pants mid-race

"People wouldn't know I'm that cheeky," Blake Shinn joked after coming in second on horse Miss Royale.

By Ben Hooper
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CANTERBURY, Australia, April 24 (UPI) -- An Australian jockey whose backside was bared to the world at the Canterbury Park Racecourse said the elastic in his pants gave out during the race.

Blake Shinn, riding Miss Royale, said the elastic in his pants gave out during the final turn of Race 1 Thursday and there was nothing he could do to prevent his backside from being bared prior to his second-place finish -- ahead of a horse appropriately named Modesty.

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"I usually come here and stay focused in search of winners. People wouldn't know I'm that cheeky," Shinn told Sky Channel's Richard Haynes, who replied by telling him to "go and debrief with your owners."

Shinn later poked fun at his own mishap on Twitter.

"Tried to give my fellow jocks a bum steer but unfortunately backfired," he tweeted.

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