Leicester off as jumps fixtures fall by wayside

National Hunt racing is looking to the north of the country as the best prospects of any British track staging racing over jumps this week after Leicester's card tomorrow was abandoned early this morning.

Freezing conditions has seen both of today's scheduled jumps meetings fall by the wayside and snow was the final straw for tomorrow's Leicester fixture when clerk of the course Jimmy Stevenson staged an inspection this morning.

He said: "We went down to minus three overnight and we have half an inch of snow on top of the track now too.

"We are forecast minus five tonight so we have had to abandon."

But Sedgefield's card tomorrow is subject to just a precautionary inspection at 8am after clerk of the course Charlie Moore took a look today and decided to take another check tomorrow morning.

Musselburgh have no reported problems and do not plan to inspect ahead of their meeting on Wednesday.