Weighing room culture allowed Robbie Dunne bullying of Bryony Frost to go unchallenged
Robbie Dunne was last week banned for 18 months, with three months suspended, after the disciplinary panel of the BHA found that he had bullied and harassed fellow rider Bryony Frost. Picture: Yui Mok/PA
Nearly 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 (PJA) 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.
