Musselburgh call Friday check

Officials at Musselburgh will stage a precautionary inspection at 7am ahead of their scheduled Friday fixture.

Conditions at the Scottish track are perfectly raceable at present and providing the forecast is correct, clerk of the course Anthea Morshead is confident racing will go ahead.

“We’re just having a look to be on the safe side but we’ll race if the forecast is right,” said Morshead.

“We could race today with no problems and we are only due to get down to minus 1C overnight.

“It is then set to rise to plus 4C. We have no snow at the moment and we should keep missing the snow.

“We’ll be covering vulnerable areas of the track with frost sheets just in case, so we’re optimistic.”