Ffos Las and Wetherby check
Saturday's meetings at Ffos Las and Wetherby will have to pass inspections if the cards are to go ahead.
Ffos Las clerk of the course Tim Long covered the track earlier in the week in a bid to safeguard the fixture, which features the Welsh Champion Hurdle. However, frost has crept under the covers after a chilly night and Long will check conditions at 9am in the morning.
"We had a sharper frost than expected last night, minus 5C verging on minus 6C at its worst. Unsurprisingly it does feel a bit frozen under the covers," he said.
"We are forecast a dry and clear day, with a maximum of 2C or 3C, and then it is due to remain clear into the night with the temperature dropping to minus 1C or 2C. Cloud cover is then forecast with some rain, but it's a question of how soon that comes in so we will look at 9am, when we will have a better idea."
Wetherby are inspecting at 3pm today. The West Yorkshire venue had largely escaped the worst of the recent cold snap, but clerk of the course Jonjo Sanderson reports temperatures to have taken a steep drop on Thursday evening. The track is now frozen in places.
He said: "We were at minus 6C from about 5am until 8am and we're now at minus 4C. It's been freezing since 9pm and we are forecast anything from 0C to 1C or 2C at best today, but there is a rogue forecast saying we could get to 4C.
"If that's right, it would give us the opportunity to reassess the situation in the morning. We are generally forecast minus 4C overnight, but it could go as low as minus 5C, 6C or even 7C, which would scupper us."
3 February 2012
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