Las beaten by frost
This afternoon's meeting at Ffos Las has become the latest victim of the cold snap after course officials were forced to abandon the high-profile fixture.
With cards at Sandown and Wetherby already called off, it had been hoped that Ffos Las would be able to fly the flag for National Hunt racing this Saturday.
But having being hit by freezing temperatures for the past two nights, clerk of the course Tim Long was able to call off the Welsh meeting without the need for the 9am inspection that had been called.
Long said: "Conditions are so that there is no point hanging on until 9am. We got down to minus 1C overnight and it is zero at the moment, but there is a fierce wind chill and we are actually freezing now. Temperatures are forecast to creep up, but only by a degree or two and it won't be enough.
"On Thursday night temperatures got down to minus 6C and that is what has really done the damage. We're absolutely devastated as the team has worked incredibly hard."
Talks had been ongoing about the possibility of the meeting being rescheduled for Sunday, but those plans had since been shelved.
4 February 2012
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