Sam looks a sure-fire star of the future

If Sam Twiston-Davies isn’t a star of the future then I’ll eat my hat. Following the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham on Tuesday he was inconsolable, but the young man had little about which to beat himself up.

He partnered The New One to finish third in the race and I don’t think I have ever seen a more unlucky loser at the festival.

It was astonishing to see Nigel Twiston-Davies’ six-year-old beaten less than three lengths at the end, after what happened to him when Our Conor took that fatal fall at the third.