Bryony Frost case will put racing’s rulers in the dock
Robbie Dunne has denied the allegations made against him in a BHA report. Picture: Mike Egerton/PA
Fourteen months after Bryony Frost lodged a formal complaint with the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) 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 the Irish jockey.
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 which prompted the Authority to refer itself to the Information Commissioner. The Professional Jockeys’ Association (PJA) even suggested last month that the whole case should be abandoned, “however unsatisfactory that is”.
