Thursday Lingfield card abandoned

Officials at Lingfield have been forced to abandon Thursday’s National Hunt meeting due to a waterlogged track.

Clerk of the course Neil MacKenzie-Ross held a 3pm inspection this afternoon and was left with no choice but to cancel the fixture.

He said: “We had 20 millimetres of rain overnight and even though it should be relatively dry through until Thursday, the course is just not going to have enough chance to produce safe ground.

“The course has waterlogged, false ground and as a result of that, we’ve been forced to abandon.

“We do have an extra all-weather fixture on Friday though as we approached the BHB after so many fixtures being abandoned over the country.

“We are also going to stage a bumper on that card as a result of it being abandoned on Thursday.”