Efforts all in vain

Tuesday 2nd February 2010, 9:21AM GMT.

It should have been a busy race day – but this was the empty grandstand at Ludlow Racecourse after the efforts of officials to get the jumps card on failed.

Yesterday’s scheduled racing was called off on Sunday after a weekend of snow and frost in the south of the county. And that rendered the covers, pictured left, put down to protect the course from the worst of the latest cold snap ineffective.

This afternoon’s meeting at Folkestone was abandoned due to frost after a morning inspection. Clerk of the course Andrew Waitt said: “We weren’t forecast a frost last night but it got down to minus 3.5C.”

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