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Frozen track forces Navan to cancel fixture

Navan was set to host seven races
Navan was set to host seven races

After an early morning inspection, Saturday's meeting at Navan has been cancelled, with the track unfit for racing following heavy overnight frost.

The County Meath venue was due to host a seven-race card, but the 8am check left officials with no choice but to cancel.

Haydock's Peter Marsh meeting will go ahead after the course passed an early-morning inspection.

The card was subject to a scheduled 8am check because of the threat of frost, having already survived the ravages of the midweek Storm Christoph.

However, the inspection was brought forward to 7am, and a Tweet from Haydock’s official account confirmed shortly after 7.15am that the course was fit for racing.

Taunton’s eight-race card was given the go-ahead before a scheduled 8am inspection there too, as overnight conditions relented sufficiently.

The ground at Taunton is soft, heavy in places – as it is at Ascot, where the Grade One Matchbook Betting Exchange Clarence House is the highlight of a seven-race card.

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