The jockey delivered the finest ever victory by a female rider, but hints her success has caused resentment behind the scenes
“I don’t get on with any character in my world as well as I do with him,” Bryony Frost says of Frodon, the horse she rode to a stunning victory in the King George VI Chase on Boxing Day. It was the most significant win for a female jockey in the history of British racing and Frost’s love of Frodon seems boundless as she considers if she will find a better partner than him on or off the track. “That’s 100%. I wonder if I ever will. He is a once-in-a-lifetime partner.”
Frost is the most charismatic jockey in jump racing and yet, while also becoming the most successful female National Hunt rider in British history after she recorded her 175th win, there is a tangled undertow to this story. We will soon skirt the unspoken jealousy and resentment that appears to stalk the 25-year-old Frost within racing. It might be because she is so ebullient, or simply because she is a young woman achieving so much in a sport that once belonged to hard men in the saddle, but Frost feels some hurt and disquiet amid the euphoria.
Written by Donald McRae
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