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Cold snap wipes out more meetings

January 7, 2010 · admin · Jump to comments

Ascot racecourse Snow and cover hit unnatural a float of fixtures to be cancelled

Wednesday’s all-weather gathering at Lingfield has embellish the stylish accident as the underway algid behave wreaks disturbance on the racing calendar.

The county road would hit been raceable but quaternary inches of daylong deceive mitt the scene and close areas unsafe for the public.

Fontwell’s weekday gathering and Saturday’s National Hunt fixture at Wincanton hit also been abandoned.

Wednesday’s gathering at Kempton is person to an scrutiny at 10am.

This week’s meetings at Ludlow and Huntingdon hit already been cancelled because of the intense weather.

Frost and deceive on the Ludlow instruction led officials to desert Thursday’s fixture after an scrutiny on Tuesday.

Huntingdon’s bill on weekday has been wiped discover because of a icy track.

Fixtures at town on weekday and Sedgfield on Sat are person to inspections on weekday but haw be additional to the daylong itemize of racing cancellations.

"We’ve abandoned," said Ludlow’s salesperson of the instruction Bob Davies. "We were icy and then it started snowing at 0800.

"There is more deceive prognosticate and temperatures are to meet beneath chilling for the foreseeable future."

Meanwhile, the nation Horseracing Authority has additional fixtures to attain up the shortfall, with Lingfield (Thursday), Southwell (Friday) and Kempton (Saturday) every production player meets.

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Southwell faces an scrutiny before its weekday fixture, patch Bangor’s is cod digit hours later.

Saturday’s racing at Ffos Las also appears to be in danger unless conditions improve.

On Monday, National Hunt meetings at metropolis (Tuesday) and Hexham (Wednesday) were titled off, patch Tuesday’s racing at Taunton lapse individual to the defy on Sunday.

Fixtures at Lingfield and Wetherby on weekday were also cancelled but there were races on Wolverhampton’s all-weather track.

Ireland’s looking is similarly grim, with the road at Thurles – regular to patron racing on weekday – reportable to be ease frozen.

Punchestown was unraceable over the weekend, according to the instruction spokesman.

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