THE TRAINER’S STORY

Fast-improving Sam Spinner, winner of the Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot in December, is one of Britain’s leading hopes for the £325,000 Stayers’ Hurdle on the third day of the Cheltenham Festival.

MARCUS TOWNEND reveals how the stories of recovery and redemption for the gelding’s trainer Jedd O’Keeffe and jockey Joe Colliver would make the six-year-old chestnut one of the most popular and emotional winners at the meeting.