Lingfield's Saturday card hinges on early inspection

Lingfield: will work the track on Friday night to boost chances of racing

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 By Paul Eacott 12:27PM 17 DEC 2010 

LINGFIELD'S all-weather meeting on Saturday is subject to an inspection at 6.30am with temperatures expected to fall to -5C overnight and snow forecast.

RELATED LINKS Lingfield Saturdaycard  Clerk of the course Neil Mackenzie Ross said on Friday: "The forecast has been changing over the past 24 hours. Our original thinking was that it would snow mid-afternoon on Saturday, but that has changed and I have called a precautionary inspection for 6.30am.

"At the moment it looks like snow will fall from 3am onwards. It is still freezing as it stands now and temperatures overnight look very cold. The forecast is for -5C and judging from what we experienced a couple of weeks ago it could be much lower than that."

With Lingfield being forced to abandon a meeting on raceday in the last cold snap when snow settled on the track, Mackenzie Ross said the Polytrack will be prepared in a different way in order to give the meeting the best possible chance of going ahead.

"What we plan to do is keep the track moving overnight and in view of the freezing temperatures and snow we will work ita bit deeper tomorrow," he said. "It is uncharted territory but this gives us the best chance of racing."

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