Bryony Frost will have a ride for Willie Mullins on Sunday as the champion trainer prepares a seven-strong team for the John Durkan Memorial Punchestown Chase as Robbie Dunne's hearing investigating claims of bullying and harassment continues..
Mullins has saddled a joint-record seven previous winners of the Grade One contest and appears intent on adding to his tally this weekend.
Allaho, so brilliant when winning the Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, appears the Mullins first string, with the trainer’s son Patrick coming in for the ride.
Frost takes the mount on Franco De Port, whose high-class novice form includes a Grade One win at Leopardstown last Christmas.
Robbie Dunne is charged with bullying and harassment of Bryony Frost during February 13 and September 3 last year - and faces a ban of up to three years from racing or a £15,000 fine.
Frost wiped away tears as she told how Robbie Dunne allegedly "promised" to hurt her after his horse died in a race.
Frost, 26, claimed her weighing room colleague made the threat at Southwell, following the death of Cillian's Well.
The horse came down and Dunne alleged the incident was a result of Frost not keeping her mount, Wisecracker, straight.
Giving her evidence to a British Horseracing Authority hearing about what happened on September 3, 2020, Frost said Dunne approached her while she was sitting in the weighing room.
At the time, she was ready to go out for the next race – and said she was unaware the chaser had died.
Questioned about Dunne's actions, by his representative Roderick Moore, Frost claimed: "He promised me that he was going to hurt me, that he was going to put me through a wing (of a fence).
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