Punchestown meeting called off

Monday’s meeting at Punchestown has been cancelled with the course currently unfit for racing.

The Co Kildare track is frozen and covered in snow, giving Irish Turf Club officials little option but to call off the fixture with conditions unlikely to improve.

Turf Club press officer Cliff Noone said: “They have had to call the meeting off. The track is frozen and they also have a covering of snow.”