Jimmy Stevenson | Inspection Latest

Jimmy Stevenson | Inspection Latest. Thursday evening's meeting at Leicester has been abandoned owing to waterlogging.

Having worked onerous to induce the meeting on, together with moving some running rails yesterday, clerk of the course Jimmy Stevenson was dismayed to examine any torrential rain this afternoon.

He said: "We've abandoned, i am afraid - we have a tendency to had fifteen millimetres in an exceedingly thunderstorm at 2pm, and there is water everywhere the place.

"It's completely unbelievable."

Hamilton had known as a precautionary inspection for 4pm before their evening card however that was cancelled.

Officials describe the going as soft, with solely light-weight showers currently predicted before racing, that is scheduled to start out at half-dozen.50pm.

Earlier within the day, Newcastle's afternoon meeting had to pass an inspection at noon before racing received the inexperienced light-weight however solely four races were able to be run.

Heavy rain had place the fixture in jeopardy, however a delegation of racing officers were proud of conditions following an assessment of the Gosforth Park circuit.

However, the track was later hit by a thunderstorm inflicting officers to recall the runners for the fifth race and therefore the meeting was soon abandoned.

Newcastle were additionally owing to race on Friday and Saturday, with the toilet Smith's Northumberland Plate the feature race at the weekend, however Friday's meeting has been abandoned owing to unsafe ground.