Leicester evening meeting called off

Racing:  This evening's cross-channel race meeting at Leicester has been abandoned due to a waterlogged track.

Racing:  This evening's cross-channel race meeting at Leicester has been abandoned due to a waterlogged track.

Clerk of the course Jimmy Stevenson held a thorough inspection of the track and despite some improvement, a number of areas are still not fit for racing.

He said: "We've had to call it off. Although 95 per cent of the track is raceable, we have just a few patches which are not safe."

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