Big meeting at Newbury is on Today's big meeting at Newbury has passed a 7am precautionary course inspection. Heavy rain throughout the week had put the jumps fixture, featuring three Graded races, in jeopardy, but clerk of the course Richard Osgood was happy with what he found upon assessing conditions early this morning. He said: "It's very good news as we are racing. We had 7.6 millimetres of overnight rain." The going is heavy.
