This afternoon’s meeting at Newcastle goes ahead as scheduled after a frost-free night at Gosforth Park.
Track officials scrapped their intended 8am precautionary inspection as temperatures failed to dip below freezing.
Clerk of the course James Armstrong said: “We hovered around zero degrees but we had good cloud-cover and we are fine for racing.”
Newcastle’s seven-racing National Hunt card commences at 2.30pm, with the going good, good to firm in places.