Fairyhouse abandoned as Navan and Thurles hope for thaw

The meeting scheduled for Fairyhouse on Saturday has been abandoned following an inspection.

The meeting will now take place on Wednesday, 21 December.

A statement from the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board read: "The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board has announced that following an inspection of the track at Fairyhouse this morning the track was found to be unfit for racing due to frost and the meeting scheduled for Saturday December 17 has been cancelled."

As it stands Navan will be inspected on Saturday at 3pm ahead of scheduled meeting on Sunday. While Thurles was deemed unraceable yesterday, there is hope that a rise in temperature and rainfall on Saturday night will allow racing on Sunday to go ahead.

A further abandonment as the freeze continues is the card at Musselburgh in the UK on Monday, with the ground described as "completely frozen" after 10 consecutive nights of frost.

In better news, Southwell's Friday meeting got the go-ahead after an inspection of the Tapeta surface.