John Smith's Northumberland Plate | Newcastle delay inspection. Officials at Newcastle have delayed a planned twelve noon inspection till 3pm prior Saturday's John Smith's Northumberland Plate meeting.
Thursday's meeting at the course was abandoned once simply four races as torrential rain and lightning hit, with a choice} then taken to call off the remainder of the cardboard.
Friday's evening meeting has already been cancelled.
Clerk of the course James Armstrong said: "We're simply attempting to regroup usually this morning.
"I'm getting ready to depart and have a glance at the track however it is not simply the bottom we've got to ascertain, it is also the infrastructure, the parking - all the items you would not sometimes have to be compelled to double check.
"We had thirty millimetres of rain within the area of twenty minutes and that is what extremely did the harm.
"We ought to check everything totally."
He later tweeted: "Inspection has been moved to FRI 3pm to permit longer to assess things. spherical course is raceable subject to rail moves."
