Bryony Frost takes giant leap in jumps world and calls it ‘bonkers’

Frost claimed Grade One victory on Boxing Day to become only the second female jockey in Britain or Ireland to win a top-class race over obstacles

As a general rule, jockeys who finish fifth in a seven-runner race get a clear run back to the weighing room but not Bryony Frost. Having started the year with almost no profile, she ends it as one of jump racing’s most popular young talents, judging by the number of autographs she was asked to sign on returning from a low-key handicap hurdle at Newbury.

Other riders overtook her on the walk back, men with many more wins to their names but a less approachable set to their faces. Frost chatted with the teenagers handing her racecards and pens, asking what they got for Christmas.

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