FROST: GIRLS FAILED TO BACK ME

BRYONY FROST accused female jockeys of “protecting themselves” in failing to back her bullying claims against fellow rider Robbie Dunne.

And the 26-year-old spoke of her “isolation” after going to the British Horseracing Authority with her allegations.

The five-time Grade 1 winner clashed with Dunne’s barrister Roderick Moore as the hearing into BHA charges that the Irishman was guilty of bullying and harassing Frost went into its second day.

Interviews by former BHA head of integrity Chris Watts with riders Lily Pinchin, sisters Bridget and Gina Andrews, Page Fuller, Millie Wonnacott and Lucy Barry had failed to support Frost’s claims of Dunne’s conduct between February 13 and September 3 2020.

In response to Moore’s observation that “they all have a very different recollection to what happened” Frost (right) countered: “They all have licences as well – they all have to be within the weighing room.

“To me, the isolation I have felt from speaking out? I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone.

“I feel they are protecting themselves and, to protect themselves, stay neutral.” As she began giving evidence, Frost recalled Dunne “opening his towel up and shaking himself” during her days as an amateur rider.

She detailed to her barrister Louis Weston incidences of what she described as cases of “aggressive riding” towards by 36-year-old Dunne at Leicester on February 13 2020 and at Market Rasen on July 29 2020. Footage was also shown of a post-race exchange at Stratford 21 days earlier, in which Dunne, riding Cillian’s Well, is alleged to have called Frost, aboard Wisecracker, a “f***ing whore” and a “dangerous c***” – language he denies using.

The two horses were again in opposition when Cillian’s Well fell fatally at Southwell on September 3 of that year.

Dunne, blaming Frost’s riding for his mount’s death, threatened to put her “through the wing” of a fence in a future, but senior jockey Tom Scudamore dismissed the altercation – “in front of 30 to 40 jockeys” – as “nothing out of the ordinary” and “no different to what you would hear every third day”.

Standing by her claim, Frost told Moore: “This is the last place I wanted to be sat.”

The hearing continues.