Sunday, 28 November 2010

Two More Off


The jumps fixtures at Southwell and Hereford on Tuesday have become the latest casualties of the cold snap.

With overnight temperatures having plummeted to minus 11C, the Southwell meeting was abandoned following an inspection on Sunday morning.

Clerk of the course Roderick Duncan said: "There was absolutely no hope, so we've called it a day already."

All is not lost at the Nottinghamshire venue, however, as a six-race Flat card on the all-weather will be formulated on the same afternoon.

Declarations to run must be made by 10am on Monday, with the first race due off at 1pm.

Duncan added: "The all-weather track is being well worked, and we're not anticipating any problems."

Hereford have called time as the track is heavily frozen. Officials saw little need to call an official inspection after overnight temperatures dropped to a shivering minus 11C.

Clerk of the course Keith Ottesen said: "We have no realistic chance of racing. Everybody knows we're in the grip of a freezing spell of weather, and will be for the foreseeable future. There is therefore little point in prevaricating an inevitability."