Sunday action at Navan and Thurles could kick off rare pre-Christmas racing glut in Ireland
“Everybody wants to race and the indicators are definitely giving me cause for cautious optimism,” Navan’s clerk of the course Paddy Graffin said on Friday.
“I then have to determine how quickly do I feel this is going to get into the ground to get the frost out of it. If it was only a window from 7.0 to 12.0 I’d be pessimistic. But I think I’m getting good cause for optimism that the temperatures are starting to go positive all Saturday evening. We’ll have to see how that plays out,” Graffin added.
Even Musselburgh which normally fares well in cold snaps has had to call off its Monday fixture 72 hours in advance due to frost. “The reason I am doing a precautionary is because we have had three nights where we’re near minus 8C and it causes problems, rather than one night. It is a knock-on effect. We had a precautionary on Monday and Wednesday, so we’d be stupid not to, given the forecast of minus 8C.”
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