Ayr card survives wash-out Heavy rain continues to affect the jumps programme with three of today`s five scheduled cards washed out, but the meeting at Ayr looks set to survive the deluge.Clerk of the course Chris Kennedy said: 'We had four millimetres of rain overnight. Some more rain is forecast but we only had four millimetres overnight so we could take a drop more yet.' Today`s other scheduled jumps fixture at Folkestone was called off on New Year`s Eve. Officials at Haydock are optimistic Saturday`s meeting will go ahead as planned. However, the outlook at Newcastle is not so good and there will be an inspection tomorrow morning to determine prospects for Saturday`s meeting at Gosforth Park. Saturday`s other National Hunt card at Sandown is also doubtful with an inspection planned for 3 p.m. today. There are no reported problems for Ludlow tomorrow but there was bad news from Hexham, when tomorrow`s fixture was called off due to waterlogging following an inspection yesterday morning.
