Nottingham lost Officials at Nottingham were finally forced to admit defeat this morning and abandon today`s televised meeting.They had made extensive efforts to attempt to salvage the fixture at a track which has been hit by very heavy recent rain, and where Friday`s card was lost to waterlogging.But after a 7.00am inspection clerk of the course Charlie Moore said: 'We have abandoned.'There was no rain overnight but the drying process which was going so well yesterday has not finished well enough to say the track will be safe for racing in six and a half hours` time.'Three races on today`s Flat card were due to be shown on Channel 4, including the Listed bluesq.com Kilvington Fillies` Stakes which carried #22,000 in added prize money.Moore said: 'The groundstaff are gutted, the chairman of the stewards panel is gutted and so am I, not to mention the people in the office.'We have had 66mm of rain since Monday morning and compared with the situation 48 hours ago the track is brilliant, and 97.5% of it is raceable,'But you can`t race with the variation in ground and patchy ground we have got.'
