Soft Ground Derby Possible Soft ground is the call at Epsom after the track was soaked with 34 millimetres of rain over the weekend.The going on the Derby course is currently soft, good to soft in places.'Taking into account the rain we had on Saturday night we´ve now totalled 34mm of rain since Saturday afternoon and about 20mm of that was in yesterday´s rainfall,' said clerk of the course Andrew Cooper.'Undoubtedly after that amount of rain you would have to call the ground soft.'It is slightly better than that in places, particularly in the climb up the hill and the top of the hill, but to all intents and purposes it is soft if we were racing here this afternoon,' he told At The Races.'I don´t think good to firm is a possibility (on Saturday). It would depend how much rain we see this week but any amount of dry weather and it will settle down. It wouldn´t stay soft here for that long.'Looking ahead I would be thinking there is a good chance of us being somewhere around good to soft on Saturday and a shade slower on Friday.' ? PA Sport
