Clonmel and Newcastle's meetings on Thursday go ahead

Thursday's meeting at Clonmel, which is set to feature a Grade 3 novice hurdle, has survived a raceday inspection. The going remains heavy but crucially the track is raceable after only 4mm of rain on Wednesday night.

The seven-race card begins at 1.10pm with a forecast of sunny spells and scattered showers.

Newcastle's jumps meeting on Thursday also survived a raceday inspection and will go ahead. The track is raceable after 5mm of rain on Wednesday took the total amount of rainfall to 45.4mm over the last six days.

The going is heavy and the rain has mostly cleared on Thursday, when there will be the risk of the odd shower throughout the day. The going at Sandown, the other British jumps meeting on Thursday, is soft, good to soft in places on the chase track and soft, heavy in places on the hurdles track.

Leicester was forced to call off its fixture on Thursday after the track was deemed unraceable due to waterlogged false ground.

Thrre are no problems anticipated at Fakenham and Kelso, the remaining jumps fixtures on Friday after Ffos Las was cancelled on Wednesday. The going is soft at both tracks with light rain forecast at Kelso on Thursday and there is a possibility that Fakenham's going description will have some good to soft in places in it by Friday morning.

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