Newbury reports no problems

Newbury’s card tomorrow, which features the stanjames.co.uk Challow Novices’ Hurdle, is set to go ahead.

The track had been frozen “in a couple of places” earlier in the week but raceday clerk of the course Richard Osgood said this morning there were no problems at this stage.

He said: “We’re fine.

“We had 8.4 millimetres of rain overnight. We had a little bit of late frost this morning but that’s out of the ground already.

“Maximum temperatures today are expected to be about six degrees and overnight of plus one and tomorrow a maximum of nine degrees.”