The card at Warwick survived the inspection at 8am on Thursday morning after a night when temperatures did not drop as sharply as had been feared, and the Midlands track will stage the only jumps racing in Britain since Fakenham abandoned all hope early on Wednesday afternoon.
Things are looking a little more uncertain for Friday, however, as both Doncaster and Huntingdon have called inspections for for 7.30am and 8.00am respectively. At Doncaster, the threat is seen as being “more from possible snowfall in the early hours” than the forecast overnight temperature of -2C, while at Huntingdon, where a valuable mares’ hurdle is the feature event, the clerk of the course, Jack Pryor, is “confident currently” that racing will go ahead.
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