Clerk of the course Barney Clifford is confident Kempton's William Hill King George VI Chase meeting will beat the cold snap.
The recent big freeze has cast doubt over several National Hunt fixtures on Boxing Day, with Towcester having already been abandoned. But with Kempton having deployed frost covers over the entirety of the track, officials at the Sunbury circuit remain in high spirits.
Clifford said: "If we were racing today we'd fall into the same trap as Haydock on Saturday that if we lifted the covers they would freeze behind us, so it's a good job they are in place. Looking ahead, the temperatures are due to rise from tonight and over the next three or four days."
He added: "We've got some precipitation coming through - showers of rain and sleet - but temperatures are set to rise to four degrees tomorrow and five degrees Christmas Day and hopefully increasing through Boxing Day and December 27. It's perfectly raceable under the covers, they keep the ground temperature high.
"Prior to employing the covers, we were good to soft and we've had 10 millimetres of precipitation but you still couldn't call it anything other than good. It might ride a bit dead."
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