Plumpton hopeful, not so good at Warwick
Officials at Plumpton and Warwick are to look at their respective tracks at 7.30am.
Plumpton was fit for racing yesterday but the forecast is not good. After an inspection yesterday clerk of the course Geoff Stickels said: "We haven't had this forecast snow but it's looking more and more like it - so we could be racing at this moment in time.
"But I will call an inspection at 7.30 tomorrow morning due to the forecast frost and possible snow. We are OK now so there's no reason for us not to continue to be hopeful."
However, at Warwick conditions deteriorated throughout the day. Head groundsman Tony Howland said: "At three o'clock this afternoon we were very hopeful and were perfectly raceable.
"However, by quarter past three snow showers had come in and we have about three-quarters of an inch of snow across the track at the moment. The temperature has already dropped to minus two and is forecast to go down to minus four overnight.
"With things the way they are we wouldn't be too hopeful, especially if the overnight forecast proves correct."
Today's other meeting is on the all-weather surface at Southwell.
Officials at Thurles will check the track at 7am after an improvement in the weather forced yesterday's planned inspection to be cancelled. A seven-race card featuring the reappearance of Native Upmanship in the Grade Two MacLochlainn Road Markings Kinloch Brae Chase gets underway at 1.30pm.
The going is described as yielding.
No inspection is planned at Folkestone on Friday where the going is currently heavy, soft in places. But officials at Doncaster will look at the track at 3pm today ahead of tomorrow's meeting.
Track manager Malcolm Taylor though is confident that Saturday's card, featuring the £50,000 Skybet Chase, will go ahead.
"We are quite optimistic about Saturday as the weather is going to change. We don't think Saturday is in danger at all," he went on.
"It's just that we had better play safe for Friday's racing but we don't pull in Friday just for the sake of saving Saturday. We don't need to do that here."
The going is good on the hurdles course and good, good to firm in places on the chase course.
No inspections are planned at the Ayr, Ascot and Uttoxeter where National Hunt racing is also due to take place on Saturday.
Yesterday's two fixtures at Hexham and Huntingdon were lost bringing the total of abandonments to 19.
