Chelmsford's next three fixtures, including the valuable Good Friday card featuring an ITV4 race, have been cancelled.
Scheduled race days this Thursday, Good Friday and Thursday April 9 have been cancelled, throwing the course's future into doubt due to financial difficulties.
Operators the Great Leighs Estates Limited went into administration last week and while Thursday's card initially got special dispensation from the BHA to take place it has now been cancelled along with the other two fixtures.
Final declarations for the Good Friday card, which was all set to feature three Class 2 contests including the Tattersalls £40,000 EBF Novice Stakes, the £50,000 Chelmsford Mile Series Final and the £60,000 Greene King Conditions Stakes, had just been made when the news came through.
It's a track that has had difficulties before, most notably when named Great Leighs which shut a year after opening in 2009 before it reopened again in 2015.
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