Officials at Chepstow have moved quickly to reschedule the Coral Welsh Grand National for January 6 after Wednesday's fixture was abandoned due to a waterlogged track.
The three-mile-five-furlong heat was due to be the feature event on a seven-race card but rain and snow over the last two days has left the track unraceable.
Three of the last seven renewals have been run in early January and in consultation with the race sponsor and the British Horseracing Authority, the card has been saved once again.
Chepstow's clerk of the course Keith Ottesen told At The Races: "With huge help from our sponsors Coral and the BHA, we've rearranged the fixture for Saturday, January 6, and we'll have some races on ITV as well.
"All the information about redeeming tickets, tickets being valid for January 6 and refunds is on the Chepstow website.
"Entries for the Coral Welsh Grand National itself will go back to the original stage in November, so even if you didn't declare for today's race, you will be able to do so."
As you can see there’s flooding and several areas of standing water on the track. We unfortunately had no choice but to abandon today. pic.twitter.com/Mde2cv6qyo
— Chepstow Racecourse (@Chepstow_Racing) December 27, 2017
Sadly Chepstow is off but @itvracing will now show two races from @WetherbyRaces - The 1.30 (juvenile hurdle) and the 2.05 Wetherby (castleford Chase) - both races will go off 5 mins later than scheduled. Thanks to @jonjosanderson and the @BHAPressOffice for their assistance
— Richard Willoughby (@17_bob_trey_o) December 27, 2017
Leopardstown check
Three of the five meetings across Britain and Ireland on Thursday are subject to morning inspections.
Day three of Leopardstown's Christmas Festival is subject to a precautionary check at 7.30am.
The threat of overnight frost and fog has prompted officials to call an early inspection ahead of a card that is due to feature the Leopardstown Christmas Chase and the Squared Financial Christmas Hurdle.
The track tweeted: "With the possibility of frost and fog tonight, there will be a precautionary inspection at 7.30am on Thursday morning (December 28) and all race time alterations will be confirmed."
Catterick inspect
Thursday's National Hunt meeting at Catterick must survive an 8am precautionary inspection due to the threat of overnight frost.
Clerk of the course Fiona Needham said: "If the forecast is correct we shouldn't have any problems, the course is perfectly raceable at present.
"They are predicting minus 1C and if that is what we get, we'll be fine."
"However, at this time of year it only takes the forecast to be a degree or two worse and you can be caught out.
"Looking at the pictures from the rest of the country, though, we're getting away lightly."
Leicester covered in snow
Leicester's meeting appears in more doubt.
With the course currently covered by between one and two inches of snow, clerk of the course Jimmy Stevenson has announced an 8am inspection.
He said: "We've got a bit of everything at the moment.
"We have between one and two inches of snow on the track after having 25 millimetres (of mixed precipitation) overnight, with a bit of rain mixed in.
"The first thing we need is for the snow to move. The problem we might have then, of course, is waterlogging as the ground is already heavy underneath.
"We'll have to see what sort of a mess we have once the snow is gone, and we might get a touch of frost as well.
"It's going to be a tough battle."
