The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board has announced that the meeting due to take place at Cork on Sunday is subject to a further precautionary inspection at 8am on Sunday morning.
IHRB Clerk Of The Course, Val O'Connell said "Following an inspection today I am pleased to say that the track remains raceable at the moment. The ground is yielding to soft, soft in places. We did have frost last night but it didn’t get into the ground, it was only a grass frost and it is currently thawing.
"In light of the forecast for further frost tonight and into tomorrow we are going to have a further precautionary inspection at 8am on Sunday to determine the situation"
Sunday's meeting at Punchestown had earlier been cancelled.
Clerk Of The Course, Brendan Sheridan said "Following overnight snow and a forecast for additional snow and severe frost tonight unfortunately we have had to cancel tomorrows meeting. As there is no improvement forecast through the next week with temperatures remaining below freezing the meeting will not be rescheduled in the coming days. A date for the rescheduled meeting will be announced on Monday."
Unfortunately John Durkan Chase day has been cancelled. Update on reschedule available from Monday 12th hopefully. https://t.co/fenW1o5ae1
— Punchestown (@punchestownrace) December 10, 2022
Saturday afternoon's feature cards at Cheltenham and Doncaster have also been abandoned after temperatures dropped to minus 5C overnight at both venues.
Frost sheets were deployed at Cheltenham after racing on Friday, but as the mercury began to drop it became a race against time.
It took clerk of the course Jon Pullin and his team around three hours to cover the whole of the New Course, which is used for the two-day International meeting, but in the end their efforts were in vain.
"Temperatures were at zero at the last on Friday and then we began to get the covers down, which we did through tremendous effort in three hours," said Pullin.
"As we were laying them the temperatures were a consistent minus-1C, minus-2C and we've been a consistent minus-4C since midnight with a low of minus-5C.
"Unfortunately we have got areas of frozen ground under the covers.
"At least we managed to race on Friday. At this stage no decisions have been made about rescheduling any races."
Doncaster were due to inspect at 9.30am for their meeting but just after 7.30am the decision had already been taken.
Unfortunately groundstaff were unable to get the covers down in time following repairs to the track after racing on Friday and temperatures reached -5C overnight.
Racing is ABANDONED. Temperatures dipped to -6C at day break with shaded parts of the track frozen and insufficient time or temperatures to recover.
— Hereford Racecourse (@HerefordRaces) December 10, 2022
Hereford staged an inspection at 9.30 before making the decision to abandon.
Meanwhile, Navan made the decision to cancel its Saturday card on Friday afternoon. Cork are due to inspect shortly ahead of Sunday's scheduled card.
⚠️ FIXTURE CANCELLED⚠️
— Navan Racecourse (@NavanRacecourse) December 9, 2022
🗣️ Clerk Of The Course Paddy Graffin gives an update below 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/4taxFkFA82
Southwell's card on Sunday must pass a 9.30am inspection on raceday while Carlisle's Sunday meeting has already been abandoned.
Racing on Monday is already in doubt at Market Rasen and Plumpton.
Market Rasen will inspect on Sunday at midday with Plumpton having a look 30 minutes later at 12.30pm.
Catterick's meeting on Tuesday is already under threat and officials will inspect at 8am on Monday.
