Lingfield’s Flat card on the all-weather on Friday was an early casualty, and Saturday’s meeting at the same course, which will come to the rescue of ITV Racing should it go ahead, is subject to an 8am inspection. The weekend’s jumps meetings are also long gone, drivers across the country are stuck in snowdrifts and the Met Office’s yellow weather warning will be in place until Monday at least – and yet, as things stand, there will still be racing at Southwell on Friday afternoon. Assuming, that is, that at least two horses per race actually make it to the track. At the last count, 15 of the 43 horses declared to run overnight have been declared non-runners. More are sure to follow, and three of the seven events already have prohibitive favourites as a result.

Source: The Guardian March 02, 2018 11:26 UTC