Robin Oakley

The making of a racehorse trainer

The route in for outsiders is strewn with boulders; that didn’t stop cameraman Andrew Bobbin

Credit: Chris Strickland / Alamy Stock Photo 
issue 02 October 2021

My best fun, through ten years reporting European politics for CNN, was bumping around the Continent with sparky young producers and the cream of international cameramen.

Among the shooters was Woj, a pony-tailed Pole with a sardonic sense of humour and so unpronounceable a surname that when we were late joining a flight an airport announcer demanded: ‘Mr R.

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