Ffos Las hopeful ahead of Saturday card

Ffos Las are clinging to the hope that they will be able to stage Saturday’s meeting, which features the SIS Live Welsh Champion Hurdle, despite the track currently being covered by a light dusting of snow.

The Tolworth Hurdle has also been salvaged from Sandown’s abandonment last weekend, meaning Britain’s newest racetrack will stage their first Grade One race.

However, with temperatures set to dip in the next 48 hours, clerk of the course Tim Long is hoping for a break in the weather to enable him to get frost sheets down.

“We’ve got a good chance of racing but the only thing that would give us cause for alarm is that the overnight temperatures are due to get decidedly lower by Thursday and Friday,” Long told At The Races.

“If we could have something like a thaw through today and the first part of tomorrow we could get the sheets out on the entire track, we already have vulnerable areas covered but it’s our intention to cover the whole lot given a window.

“It’s going to be dry, we’ve no more snow forecast. We are currently around two or three degrees but they say we will get down to freezing tonight.

“It’s the temperatures on Thursday and Friday that will get lower, minus three, minus four is possible which wouldn’t be great but not insurmountable as long we can get the course protected tomorrow.

“The roads are free, one you get east of Cardiff it is quite bad but it’s all motorway then anyway. In comparison with a lot of the country we got away quite lightly.

“We do need the weather to be favourable, there is no doubt about that. We need a bit of luck but we’ve got a fighting chance.”