Conditions at Ascot are certain to be testing for the two-day fixture culminating in Saturday’s card featuring the Long Walk Hurdle and The Ladbroke.

Jamie Spencer is looking forward to being reunited with Fame And Glory as they go for back-to-back victories in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot tomorrow week.

The two races on the round course scheduled for Ascot tomorrow will be subject to an inspection at 6.30am.

Wednesday’s meeting at Ascot has been abandoned due to a waterlogged track.

Wednesday’s meeting at Ascot is under threat with areas of the course currently waterlogged following heavy rain.

Ascot’s showpiece meeting tomorrow, featuring the BGC Long Walk Hurdle, has been abandoned due to a frozen track.

This afternoon’s meeting at Ascot has been abandoned due to a frozen track following a second inspection at 11am.

Today's meeting at Ascot has survived a 7.30am inspection, although course officials must assess conditions again at 11am.

Officials at Ascot will stage a precautionary inspection at 7.30am ahead of their fixture tomorrow.

This afternoon's meeting at Ascot goes ahead as scheduled after the track passed a 6.30am precautionary inspection.

Officials at Ascot will stage a precautionary inspection at 6.30am ahead of Saturday's high-profile meeting.

Blizzards and plummeting temperatures across the UK have already claimed a number of the weekend’s sporting fixtures with more set to follow later in the day.

ASCOT’S big double-header of racing has been snowed off as the recent cold snap hit the racing schedule.

Racing at Ascot was abandoned because of snow today – with a 4pm inspection also planned ahead of tomorrow’s meeting.

Tomorrow’s meeting at Ascot is under threat due to the forecast of snow.

Racing is set to go ahead at Ascot tomorrow, but at least one of the two fences in the home straight could be omitted.

Trainers and jockeys condemned Ascot officials for watering the track before their three-day Queen Elizabeth II Stakes meeting.

It was slightly harder work than perhaps expected, but Rainbow View still reinforced her position at the head of the market for the 1000 Guineas with a high-class performance in the Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile.

BOOKMAKERS are struggling to split Henrythenavigator and Tamayuz as two of the season’s top milers prepare to lock horns in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

Steve Drowne believes Sakhee’s Secret is the one they have to beat in Saturday’s Golden Jubilee Stakes at Ascot.

Ascot’s precautionary inspection this morning was cancelled after only half a millimetre of rain fell overnight.

OFFICIALS at Ascot and Haydock are optimistic their meetings today will beat the wet weather that continues to hit jump racing.

HEAVY rain has decimated the fixture list with several tracks already washed out and some of the weekend action also under threat.

Heavy rain has decimated the fixture list with several tracks already washed out and some of the weekend action also under threat.

This afternoon’s fixture at Ascot has been given the go-ahead after the track passed a third inspection at 11.30am.

This afternoon’s meeting at Ascot must pass a 10.00am inspection after a precautionary check at 7.30am proved inconclusive.

This afternoon’s meeting at Ascot goes ahead after the track passed a 7.30am inspection.

Parts of the course at Ascot are frozen, putting tomorrow’s meeting in doubt and forcing an inspection at 7.30am.

Ascot’s meeting this afternoon will go ahead as planned after the course passed a precautionary 8am inspection.

SERGEANT Cecil could yet tackle next week’s King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.

Ascot will stage an inspection at 4pm on Thursday for Friday and Saturday’s races over 10 furlongs and farther.

Watering has been virtually ruled out at Royal Ascot due to a showery forecast for the week.

A total of 28 horses were eliminated from the Ascot Stakes on Tuesday following a reduction in the safety limit to 20.

YESTERDAY’S abandoned Thurles meeting has been rescheduled for next Tuesday.

Ascot have called a 9am inspection for Friday ahead of Saturday’s meeting.

ONEWAY must defy top weight of 11st 10lb if he is to emerge triumphant in Saturday’s Victor Chandler Chase – but handler Mark Rimell is unconcerned by his welter burden.

Ascot clerk of the course Chris Stickels expects good to firm ground as the five-day Royal meeting gets underway tomorrow.

Ascot’s new clerk of the course Chris Stickels admitted today that for the foreseeable future it will be “a struggle” to produce identical conditions on the round and straight courses.

Folkestone do not anticipate any problems ahead of tomorrow’s meeting despite the heavy rain which has hit the country in the past 24 hours.

Punters will have to endure a blank day on the jumps front in the UK after both of today’s meetings were cancelled due to the wintry weather.

Today’s meeting at Folkestone has been abandoned due to waterlogging and snow.

HOPES are high that both today’s cross-channel jumps meetings will go ahead after yesterday’s action at Plumpton was frozen off.

Officials at Wetherby and Folkestone will hold further inspections this morning to assess the prospects for this afternoon’s meetings at both tracks.

Folkestone have abandoned their meeting this afternoon because of snow.