Students can study the form at latest Warwick Jumps meeting

A special student deal of admission plus a pie and a pint or glass of wine is on offer for £8 and b ookings can be made through local campuses or from the ticket hotline on 08445 793013.

There are seven races starting at 12.50pm with the TurfTV Handicap Hurdle over two miles and three furlongs and ending at 3.50pm with the David Nicholson Memorial Fillies’ “Junior” Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race.

Nicholson’s protégé Alan King was the man in form at the last meeting, with the win of Balder Succes in the day’s big race, the £11,000 Anixter’s Partner Day Novices’ Chase, the middle leg of a stable treble.

The saddest sight of the afternoon, however, was seeing an ambulance taking jockey Ed Cookson to hospital after a horrific-looking fall at the first fence in the conditional jockeys’ chase.

He took to Twitter in the evening to confirm he had fractured his lower back, showing just what risks jockeys take every time they go out to ride.

It put into context the following day’s big racing story of champion jockey AP McCoy reaching 4,000 jumps winners in Great Britain and Ireland when Mountain Tunes scored at Towcester.

McCoy’s longevity in a sport where danger is always lurking is an achievement in itself, but to be champion jockey 18 times and ride so many winners must surely make him one of the greatest sportsmen ever.

Warwick played a part in the McCoy story, as it was here that he broke Sir Gordon Richards’ record for the most wins in a season when Valfonic became his 270th of the 2001/02 campaign in April 2002.

He went on to achieve a total of 289, a new record that is likely to stand for a long time.