UPDATE ON CURRENT RACING PROSPECTS WITH UK FREEZE :(
07-01-2010
Friday | Bangor | Abandoned |
Fontwell | Abandoned | |
Lingfield | AW – Standard; “track is raceable and the forecast is favourable”; INSPECTION 6.30am FRIDAY | |
Southwell | AW – Slow | |
Wolverhampton | AW – Standard; snow has been removed from track which is being worked; INSPECTION 8.30am FRIDAY | |
Saturday | Sedgefield | Abandoned |
Wincanton | Abandoned | |
Punchestown | Abandoned | |
Ffos Las | Abandoned | |
Kempton | AW – Standard | |
Lingfield | AW – Standard | |
Sunday | Hereford | Abandoned |
Leopardstown | Abandoned | |
Southwell | AW – Slow | |
Monday | Ayr | Abandoned |
Taunton | Abandoned | |
Wolverhampton | AW – Standard | |
Kempton | AW- additional fixture | |
Tuesday | Leicester | Track frozen and covered in snow; forecast to remain very cold and frosty with snow showers |
Newcastle | One foot of snow on course at present, with odd snow showers expected; likely to remain cold for next four days; INSPECTION 12pm SUNDAY | |
Lingfield | AW – additional fixture | |
Southwell | AW – Slow | |
Wednesday | Doncaster | Snowbound and cold temperatures are forecast to continue; “prospects do not look good” |
Kelso | 15 inches of snow on the course; temperatures reached a low of -12°C on Wednesday night. Inspection likely on Monday morning | |
Southwell | AW – additional fixture – all-bumper card | |
Kempton | AW – Standard | |
Lingfield | AW – Standard | |
Thursday | Catterick | Course covered in eight inches of snow; forecast to remain very cold with a few snowshowers |
Towcester | Course frozen solid and covered with five inches of snow; forecast to remain cold with severe overnight frosts and low daytime temperatures | |
Thurles | Track still frozen and unraceable; hoping temperatures will begin to rise after the weekend; “running the hurdle races and a bumper on Thursday and six chases on Friday as the chase track will need longer for the frost to come out of the ground” | |
Southwell | AW – Slow | |
Wolverhampton | AW – Standard |