Family fun day out at Warwick's Fiver Friday meeting

Local trainers Dan Skelton and Olly Murphy have plenty of entries over the seven-race card that gets underway at 2.05pm. Murphy currently lies in fourth place in the championship table which Skelton heads by a wide margin as he bids to land the title for the first time.

The opening race, the JCB 'Hands And Heels' Handicap Hurdle for conditional jockeys and amateur riders over three and a quarter miles, was won last year by the Murphy-trained Barricane and, this year, he has entered ex-Irish Kells Priory who would be making his stable debut. Set to carry top weight of 12-0, he looks to have a stiff task and may not beat Mr Griffiths, who won at the fourth time of asking over hurdles at Fontwell Park and can overcome a 6lb rise in the weights.

Skelton holds four of the twenty entries in the following Aston Villa Foundation EBF 'National Hunt' Novices' Hurdle including wide-margin Sandown Park winner Sinnatra who is also entered at Exeter the same afternoon. Four Springs, trained by the in-form Ben Pauling, has had wind surgery which could help this winner of a point-to-point and a bumper step up on his sole hurdles run when third at Market Rasen on Boxing Day.

The most valuable race of the afternoon is the £15,000 JCB Fastrac Handicap Chase over two and a half miles, won last year by King's Threshold trained by Emma Lavelle who could be represented this time by the lightly-raced King Califet. Skelton has three entries, but the one that catches the eye is the intriguingly-named Cabhfuilfungi who would be stepping up in trip here after finishing runner-up at Uttoxeter last time.

The Best Odds Guaranteed At Betano Handicap Hurdle has attracted 25 entries with Skelton and Murphy having three each, but it's another Warwickshire-trained horse, Tigers Moon, who could have the edge. He was raised 10lbs for a win at Southwell in December, but ran well off his new rating of 103 to finish third at Leicester and represents the stable of Marton trainer Tom Ellis. Dual winner Kalkaroo is another interesting entry, but he is also entered in the longer JCB Hydradig Handicap Hurdle that follows.

Only Gossip showed her best form to date when runner-up at Fontwell Park and could take the Betano Backing British Racing Mares' Handicap Chase (Queen Boudicca Mares' Chase Qualifier), won last year by the grey Fashion's Model, the middle leg of a treble for jockey Ben Jones. She has another entry at Ffos Las so, in her absence, Leicester winner Voleur De Terres could score again for Cleeve Prior trainer Claire Dyson.

There are no obstacles to be jumped in the closing Betano Boosted Odds Every UK Race Mares' Open National Hunt Flat Race in which ten of the eighteen entries have yet to see a racecourse. Amongst them is Roccobye, for whom market support would be a pointer, and Irish point-to-point winners Burds Of A Feather and Fairy Park, another to also hold an entry at Exeter.