Sunday, February 08, 2009

no jumps racing today

all 3 N.H.meetings scheduled for today have been abandoned - Exeter, Hereford and the big Irish meeting at Leopardstown, which is to be rescheduled for next Sunday. That leaves the all-weather track at Kempton staging the only racing in Britain and Ireland; main feature is the listed Ladybird Stakes at 16.40 CET. With the bad weather set to continue, the outlook for the next few days remains uncertain. Tomorrow´s fixture at Wetherby has already been called off, but it seems likely that Plumpton will go ahead, giving Tony McCoy another chance of riding his 3,000 th winner. He has been stuck on 2,998 for the past 10 days.