Hannah Welch tells hearing of weighing-room incident‘I was crying and he did not stop,’ Welch saysA former amateur rider who says that she was left in tears in a weighing room after fellow jockey Robbie Dunne accused her of “cutting him up” in a race told a disciplinary hearing in
London on Thursday that Dunne’s account of the incident was “incredible” and that it had contributed to her decision to turn her back on racing.
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Hannah Welch, who rode seven winners from 70 rides under rules before giving up race-riding in June 2020, was giving evidence at a hearing in which Dunne is charged with bullying and harassing his fellow rider Bryony Frost between February and September 2020.