Doncaster and Leicester both go ahead this afternoon This afternoon’s meetings at Doncaster and Leicester will go ahead as planned, although the latter only got the green light following a third inspection at 12 noon. Shortly after 7am Doncaster’s clerk of the course Paul Barker was confident temperatures had not dropped sufficiently to cause a problem but it was a different story for Jimmy Stevenson at Leicester. By 8am the temperature on course had dropped to a chilly -4C but were forecast to rise to 4C or 5C later on. The track failed a second inspection at 10.30am but, with temperatures slowly rising, it finally passed a third look at mid-day. There are also issues at Wincanton on Friday where clerk of the course Dan Cooper and his team have called an 8.30am check for raceday. The course is currently frozen in places with temperatures potentially going as low as -3C before racing. An 8am precautionary inspection has also been called at Fontwell ahead of the meeting there on Thursday, also due to frost.
