Robbie Dunne ban reduced to 10 months after Bryony Frost bullying and harassment appeal hearing | Racing News

Jockey Robbie Dunne’s ban for bullying and harassing Bryony Frost has been reduced from 18 months to 10 months after an appeal hearing in London on Wednesday afternoon.

The jockey was found in breach of four counts of engaging in conduct which the BHA considers is prejudicial to the integrity, proper conduct and good reputation of horseracing by bullying and harassing Frost over a seven-month period in 2020.

Dunne, who denied all but one of the charges brought against him, was given an extension to appeal last year’s verdict and his representatives formally submitted to the BHA on January 20, appealing both the finding of the case and the subsequent penalty.

He was hit with an 18-month ban from racing, three of which were suspended, but that ban has now been reduced to ten months, with Dunne now allowed to return to race riding on 9 October 2022.

Despite agreeing that Dunne had been guilty of breaching rule J19, Appeal Board chair Anthony Boswell QC felt one breach of the rule, rather than the previous four, covered all the offences.

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