Lingfield inspect for Saturday meet

Officials at Lingfield have called a 10.30am inspection for Friday ahead of Saturday’s meeting.

The track is due to stage their feature National Hunt meeting with the Grade Two December Novices’ Chase the highlight of the seven-race card.

However, Lingfield is currently unraceable due to snow and frozen patches of ground so clerk of the course Neil Mackenzie Ross will have to check conditions on Friday.

The venue have the option of staging an all-weather Flat card on Saturday instead of the jumps fixture.