Bryony Frost is, of course, the daughter of Grand National-winning jockey Jimmy Frost and has made a habit of making her own headlines since riding her first winner under Rules, Current Event, trained by Rose Loxton, in a hunters’ chase at Musselburgh on February 1, 2015. Two years later she turned professional and, on March 14, 2019, won the Ryanair Chase on Frodon, trained by Paul Nicholls, thereby becoming the first female jockey to ride a Grade 1 winner, over hurdles or fences, at the Chelteham Festival. On December 26, 2020, she won the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on the same horse, therby becoming the first feamle jockey to win that race, too.
Champion conditional jockey in 2018/19, Frost rode 50 winners from 307 rides that campaign and amassed £988,839 in total prize money, making it the most successful, numerically and financially, so far. More recently, her riding career has been interrupted by a high-profile disciplinary case, which eventually saw fellow jockey Robbie Dunne banned for ten months for bullying and intimidation and a serious back injury sustained in a fall at Aintree in April 2022, which kept her sidelined for six months. The 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons yielded just 29 and 26 winners, from 177 and 183 rides, respectively, and her last Graded winner was Knappers Hill in the Grade 2 Select Hurdle at Sandown Park in April 2023.
