Tomorrow's race meet in Newcastle has been abandoned due to false patches of ground, it was confirmed today.

A crack at the Chester Cup could be on the cards for Gordonsville after the six-year-old gave Jim Goldie a third success in the £20,000 Musselburgh Gold Cup.

Hotham is a bit of a character pre-race but once the stalls open he always puts his best foot forward and he gave trainer Noel Wilson one of his biggest wins in the National Express Reserve Consolation Handicap at Musselburgh.

Former jump jockey PJ McDonald returned to the scene of his biggest triumph over obstacles and walked away with a big-priced double courtesy of Tale Of Silver and Jim Martin at Ayr.

Magic Cat is set for a step up in class after running out a convincing winner of the Sapper Conditions Stakes for the in-form Karl Burke and Andrew Elliott at Ripon.

Cheshire trainer Mick Mullineaux sent Methaaly on a reconnaissance mission to Ayr and it paid off when the five-year-old won the Giles Insurance Corporate Handicap.

PJ McDonald gained his first success for the Michael Dods stable when Leonid Glow defied top weight in the Bud And Joe Pieroni Memorial Handicap at Ayr.

Eoghan O’Neill hopes Reve De Soleil proves adept in Listed class after the chestnut showed limitless potential at Pontefract.

Ferdy Murphy hit the Ayr jackpot for the third time in seven years when he completed a tremendous one-two with Hot Weld and Nine De Sivola in the Coral Scottish Grand National.

The Paul Nicholls-Ruby Walsh dream team shows no signs whatsoever of grinding to halt as the season draws to a close and the pair dominated the first day of the Scottish Grand National meeting at Ayr.

Tony McCoy will make the long journey up to Kelso on Saturday in an attempt to plunder one of Scotland’s biggest prizes of the season.

Alan Dempsey dominated proceedings at Ayr this afternoon with a 59-1 double courtesy of Kempski and Chief Dan George.

Conditional jockey PJ McDonald will not be appealing against the eight-day suspension handed out at Carlisle last Sunday.

Wild Cane Ridge looked a classy recruit to the novice chasing ranks with his impressive debut victory over fences at Newcastle on Friday.