- ‘Nobody in the weighing room is rancid,’ says Charlie Deutsch
- Robbie Dunne present at Cheltenham but makes no comment
Robbie Dunne was in the paddock here on Fridayas Pretty Little Liar, the horse he had been booked to ride for his brother, David, before the jockey was banned for 18 months on Thursday, paraded before the 1.50pm race. But he declined to offer any comment to reporters after the mare returned to the unsaddling enclosure having been pulled up three out by his replacement, Aidan Coleman.
Dunne would not confirm whether he will appeal against an independent panel’s verdict that he subjected fellow rider Bryony Frost to a seven-month campaign of bullying and harassment. Several of his former colleagues in the weighing room also seemed reluctant to comment on the outcome of the case, or even on the outcome of the races at Cheltenham, the home of jump racing.
