Frost threatens British racing

Both Chepstow and Leicester have called for a second inspection before this afternoon´s racing can go ahead, while Catterick was already abandoned yesterday. Tomorrow´s meeting at Musselburgh has also been abandoned.
Should Chepstow go ahead, it will be their most important meeting of the year, with the Welsh Grand National at 15.10 CET and the Future Champions Juvenile Hurdle for 3yo´s at 15.45 the main features. Paul Nicholls has booked Tony McCoy for most of his runners here, and can possibly take these races with The Tother One and exciting French import Sang Bleu respectively. However the National is a very open race, and the safest bet could be CD specialist Halcon Genelardais (Alan King/ Wayne Hutchinson), who won this race in 2006 and has been placed in both runnings since.

In any case racing looks certain at Wolverhampton´s all-weather fixture, where the 6 furlongs handicap at 17.45 is by far the best race on the card. Imprimis Tagula (Alan Bailey/ Declan Cannon) is in tremendous form, having won 3 of his last 4 races and can score again before the handicapper reassesses him.