Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas card will be subject to a morning inspection at the Curragh – with parts of the track waterlogged.
The 7.30am inspection for day one of the Irish Guineas weekend was announced following 34mm of rain at the track, via a Tweet on the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board account.
⚠️ @curraghrace inspection at 7.30am Saturday
— IHRB (@ihrb_ie) May 21, 2021
After 34mm of rain in last 24hrs, the ground is heavy (Str) & soft to heavy (Rnd).
Parts of track waterlogged around 6f & 4f in Straight.
Further rain today (approx 5mm according to Met Éireann), unsettled tomorrow with showers pic.twitter.com/qEEHyRcvpv
Saturday’s card is also set to feature three further Group races, while the Curragh is scheduled to stage the Irish 1,000 Guineas and Group One Tattersalls Gold Cup on Sunday.
Curragh chief executive Pat Keogh said: "We got lot more rain than we anticipated overnight. We were forecast 15 millimetres at the most in the last 24 hours, and got 35 millimetres.
"It's come completely out of left field, unfortunately.
"The track would not be raceable today. Most of the track is raceable, but there are a few areas (that are waterlogged) and we will look to get that off the track.
"We’ll just have to monitor things as we go along. If more rain came than was forecast that would give us a problem.
"We’re hopeful, but we will have a precautionary inspection tomorrow morning."
Showery outbreaks of rain on Friday will become more isolated through the day. A dry and sunny start is forecast for Saturday, with
Heavy rain resulted in morning inspections for Friday's jumps cards at Wexford and Downpatrick.
Both those meetings will go ahead, however – on going which is heavy, soft in places at Wexford and yielding to soft, soft in places at Downpatrick.
