Culture war: Robbie Dunne case offers two very different weighing room ideals

Both the prosecution and defence counsel promised early in their closing statements on Wednesday to present matters in a way that strictly adhered to the matter at hand; namely whether Robbie Dunne behaved in a violent or improper manner towards Bryony Frost and in doing so acted in a way prejudicial to the integrity, proper conduct and good reputation of the sport.

Yet both the BHA's barrister Louis Weston QC and Roderick Moore, representing Dunne, found themselves on terrain which ensures that this case will have huge consequences for the way racing sees itself and how the regulator might seek to reform the working spaces of its chief human practitioners, the jockeys.

Moore might have been speaking for many interested observers beyond the hearing when he said: "The weighing room now has a culture that you have now heard a great deal about from a number of different witnesses."