Robin Oakley

Women simply don’t understand sport’s importance

Plus: The sporting woman of the moment who's turning out tuned-to-the-minute steeplechasers

Aidan Coleman riding Venetia Williams' Saroque at Sandown Photo: Getty 
issue 08 February 2014
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