Sexually assaulted, groped and told to starve herself: the harrowing treatment of a female jockey who fought it all to break new ground, writes IAN HERBERT

IAN HERBERT: So casually was it accepted in the 1970s, that the stable 'lads' who had groped her one day would display no embarrassment the next. 'I had been told, "You have to fit in here,"' she says.