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
The woman sitting in front of me, drinking coffee in the sunshine of London's Notting Hill is describing how, as a 20-year-old trying to break into horse racing, she was sexually assaulted, though there is no terminology of that kind, no names, no lawyers raking over the detail. At what point in time does abuse constitute an historical crime? Not by 1978, to judge by Karen Wiltshire's story. Back then, she never wanted a fuss or the kind of controversy that might mark her out as 'a problem' for the racing fraternity and even now, she glosses over the many times she would be jumped on from behind in a race yard stable by men who would try to rip her top off.
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