OF all the tips and whispers you’re likely to hear in Co Kerry this coming week, following horses from the Tipperary-based yard of John Ryan can be rated solid advice – the stats are there to back it up.

With eight winners from just 35 runners in the last five seasons, Ryan has the third highest strike rate of National Hunt trainers at all meetings at the Kerry venue in that time period. Over half of those runners finished in the top three and if you blindly backed every Ryan runner in Listowel, you’d be well off to the tune of a €21.83 profit from a €1 stake.