With that aim we've put together some useful course stats along with three horses worth backing, while you will find the race card for today's meeting at the Planet Sport Live Centre.

Selections:

Coolvalla (13.20 Warwick)

Hawthorn Cottage (15.05 Warwick)

Espoir De Guye (15.40 Warwick)

Course characteristics

Left-handed, with tight turns and short run-in. Circuit 1m5f. Front runners and those ridden prominently tend to do well on both the hurdle and chase courses.

Top trainers with runners

Dan Skelton, who is based nearby at Alcester, has sent out 59 winners here over the past five seasons and they've come at a respectable strike rate of 21% (277 runners).

His two runners this afternoon are Signal Point, who looks a worthy favourite for the opening "national hunt" novices' hurdle (14.30), and Alnadam (15.40).

Alan King is the third winning-most trainer over the same period (32-145, 22%) and he's solely represented by Midnightreferendum (15.05), while Venetia Williams is 4-8 here in the current season and has double prospects (read on).

Top jockeys with rides

Harry Skelton is by far the leading jockey here with his 56 winners coming from 247 rides (23%) and he's on board both his brother's runners this afternoon.

Jonathan Burke is 8-26 (31%) in the current season and his best chance today looks to be the Tom George-trained Coupdebol in the novices' handicap chase (13.55).

13.20 Warwick - Coolvalla

A 3m2f "hands and heels" handicap hurdle for conditional / amateur jockeys might not appear to be the best betting medium, but Coolvalla looked way ahead of his mark when galloping clear of his rivals at Lingfield 10 days ago and a 7lb penalty is unlikely to stop him going in again.
The seven-year-old is considered to be an out-and-out stayer by his trainer Chris Gordon and having shown improved form to finish fourth when upped to 2m5f on his handicap debut at Fontwell previously, he was entitled to go close at the Surrey track on his first try over 3m.
As it turned out, very few got into what had looked a competitive race on paper - only five of the 17 runners finished on near unraceable ground - with the strong travelling winner rarely looking in trouble and going clear before the last to score by nine lengths, despite being eased close home.
Clearly well suited to heavy conditions, it shouldn't matter one bit that Tom Cannon is being replaced by the trainer's son Freddie as he looks a steering job this afternoon.

15.05 Warwick - Hawthorn Cottage

With Venetia Williams continuing to rack up the winners - she has a 8-36 (22%%) record in the last fortnight - her Eleanor Bob (non-runner) is going to take some stopping in her bid for a hat-trick after comfortable wins at Chepstow and Huntingdon.

A further 6lb rise makes life more difficult for her but she's clearly in the form of her life and might have more to offer given she's lightly raced over fences, while we can also take her ability to handle the prevailing heavy ground on trust.
She could only finish third behind Legends Ryde, who is amongst her five rivals this afternoon, when they met at Ffos Las in October, but she was in the process of running a big race when clouting the third-last and can reverse that form here.
In the absence of Eleanor Bob and with Legends Ryde a short price as a result, we'll take a chance instead on Hawthorn Cottage.
Amy Murphy's mare has had wind surgery since finishing well beaten at Newbury in December under an amateur, and has the form in the book to win a race of this nature, including a success over course and distance.
She made every yard of the running when successful at Kempton last November under today's pilot Jack Quinlan, which is how she likes to be ridden, and she could get an easy lead here. The stable is in form too (2-7 in the last fortnight).

15.40 Warwick - Espoir De Guye

Williams has double prospects in this three-runner 2m4f handicap chase with Espoir De Guye, who has not been seen out since finishing a close second in last year's renewal, which was a far more competitive affair.
That he has gone well fresh in the past, including when winning a class 2 handicap at Ascot on his reappearance in the 2019/20 season off just a 1lb lower mark, bodes well for his chances of overcoming that absence, and he might also benefit from recent wind surgery.
Of his two rivals, Dan Skelton's Alnadam is feared most having faced a tough task in last month's Grade 2 Peter Marsh Chase, in which he didn't jump particularly well and was pulled up before three out.
His previous third of 16 at Cheltenham reads much better but the suspicion is that he needs a more galloping track to be seen at his very best, with both his chase wins to date coming at Sandown off lower marks.