If jockeys accept the flaws in the long-standing practice of self-policing disputes behind closed doors the sport can move onNearly three days on from its astonishingly ill-judged response to the finding that Robbie Dunne had bullied and harassed his fellow rider Bryony Frost over seven months in 2020, the Professional Jockeys’ Association finally stopped digging on Sunday. Frost, it accepted, really had been bullied: on the racecourse, in the weighing room and online. It wasn’t just a feeling after all.The PJA’s splenetic statement ran to nearly 1,000 words, most of which had apparently been written for the benefit of any or every jump jockey bar the one it should have been doing its utmost to support. Continue reading...
The British Horseracing Authority’s competence as racing’s regulator will face the fiercest of scrutiny this weekFourteen months after Bryony Frost lodged a formal complaint with the British Horseracing Authority that she had been bullied and harassed by her fellow rider, Robbie Dunne, the regulator’s independent disciplinary panel will finally convene in London on Tuesday to consider the evidence against him.It is a case with no obvious precedent, which sets one member of the weighing room’s apparently tight-knit community against another. It has also been plagued by delays and leaks, including a release of the 120-page report by BHA investigators into Frost’s claims to the Sunday Times which prompted the Authority to refer itself to the Information Commissioner. The Professional Jockeys’...
The first female rider to win a Grade One race at the Cheltenham Festival has found the going tougher this season but is back in the spotlight at Kempton on SaturdayIf there is a gene for positivity, Bryony Frost has it twice. “It’s a long way off if you look at the top of the mountain sometimes,” she said this week, on the road home from Catterick after finishing fourth and then last on her only rides. “It can be daunting; hence why I never set any goals. But, if you make every step a forward one, going uphill and improving in some way or another in life, then you’re doing just fine and wherever you end up is where...
The hugely popular jockey, a winner at the Cheltenham Festival last week, broke a collarbone in a fall at Southwell on MondayBryony Frost broke a collarbone in her Monday fall at Southwell, it has been confirmed. The hugely popular jockey, a winner on Frodon at last week’s Cheltenham Festival, will not be able to ride in the Grand National a fortnight on Saturday. Related: Anthony Honeyball calls for changes to Cheltenham Festival four-miler Sedgefield 2.05 Molliana 2.40 Robbing The Prey 3.10 Tetraites Style (nap) 3.45 I’m To Blame 4.20 Whoshotthesheriff 4.55 Strike West 5.25 Djin Conti Continue reading...
The first female rider to win a Grade One race over jumps at the Cheltenham Festival will see a shoulder specialist on Wednesday after a fall at SouthwellBryony Frost, who provided one of the highlights of last week’s Cheltenham Festival when victorious aboard Frodon in last week’s Ryanair Chase, will see a specialist in Cardiff on Wednesday to assess the injury to her shoulder sustained in a fall at Southwell on Monday. Frost had been due to ride at Huntingdon on Tuesday but her hopes of building on last week’s memorable success are on hold for the moment at least, just 16 days before the opening afternoon of the Grand National Festival at Aintree. “Bryony Frost had a fall yesterday...