Bryony Frost hit out at the Professional Jockeys’ Association over their lack of support regarding the bullying she suffered at the hands of Robbie Dunne.
“The PJA weren’t there for me and their system isn’t good enough,” Frost, 26, said.
“I felt like an inconvenience. There was no care or interest from them even when it reached the stage of the hearing.
“They just basically said that time would fix it. They wanted to ignore it until it went away.
“I don’t feel they saw what I was going through as being as serious as it was.
“They were meant to be neutral. They weren’t there to pick sides.”
Dunne was banned from riding for 18 months, with three months suspended, after he was found guilty of repeatedly bullying and threatening Frost on Thursday.
Frost, right, added: “It wasn’t about me versus Robbie Dunne, or about girls having to back girls, or trainers having to back trainers. It was about human beings – there has to be a line you can’t cross.
“You’re not going to get on with everyone but it’s about treating people with respect and dignity.
“They (PJA) are the jockeys’ voice, there to help all the members, but one of the PJA heads likened my scenario to his having a spat with a local cricket player in an afternoon game.
“He said it was the same and we should just get on with it. The PJA are underwater, they’re drowning and not accepting they are.”
The PJA have been accused of being out of step with the situation – not only for delaying the case from going ahead but also by their initial statement when it ended, stating Frost had ‘felt’ she had been bullied.
Four days later PJA chief executive Paul Struthers admitted on RacingTV’s Luck On Sunday programme that they were wrong to use the word and acknowledged that Frost had been bullied.
Regarding Frost’s decision to take her complaint to the BHA, Frost explained: “The world I was in was like, ‘take it on the chin, brush it under the carpet, it will be OK in time’.
“My last resort was taking it to the BHA. I knew it was never going to stop but I had to give something a go because it was getting worse.”
