Tony Keenan fancies a 25-1 Willie Mullins horse for the big race

Tony Keenan
IRISH RACING
Cheltenham form proves to be the strongest of the National Hunt programme year in, year out. Since 2010, there have been 147 winners at the Aintree National meeting; the horses that had their last run at the Cheltenham Festival are 89/812 for a strikerate of 11% while the rest are 58/1,430 for a strikerate of 4%.
If you isolate the winners and placed horses the numbers are even better. Of the 70 horses that won at Cheltenham and went on to Aintree, 23 won for a strikerate of 33%, a level-stakes profit ...