Inspection planned for Sandown

Officials at Sandown Park have called a precautionary inspection for 7.30 in the morning ahead of racing at the Esher track tomorrow.

Clerk of the course Andrew Cooper said: “We’re absolutely fine at the moment and we would be on Sunday, but there is a very sharp frost forecast for tonight.

“It’s already turning into a coldish day here and the air temperatures are forecast to be below freezing for a long period of the night, and struggling to get to plus three or four during the course of tomorrow morning.

“We’re perfectly raceable as it stands, there’s no frost or anything like that, but it sounds sufficiently bad that we should have a look in the morning.

“If we got the worst case scenario in terms of the forecast then it would be a concern.

“Apparently it could still be below freezing at 10.00am tomorrow, although the forecasters were about four degrees out with the temperature last night.

“We’ll have to see, but they do seem to be pretty confident about what is going to happen tonight I have to say.”

The going on the hurdle course is good to soft, soft in places, with the chase track good to soft, good in places.