Leopardstown will inspect again at 8am on Saturday to determine whether day one of the Dublin Racing Festival can take place as planned.

Major efforts at the course earlier in the week saw large areas of standing water cleared away, with conditions reportedly drying back to ‘yielding to soft’ on the chase course by Thursday afternoon.

However, torrential overnight rain in the area had put officials on red alert all over again, and a Friday afternoon inspection was called. While the track was raceable by early afternoon, with more rain forecast, officials will check again in the morning.

Sandown passed a Thursday morning inspection and the original card including hurdle races is set go ahead as scheduled, although a 7:30am Saturday morning check is planned.

The ground is ‘soft, heavy in places’ on the chase course and ‘heavy, soft in places’ on the hurdles track, with a band of rain expected to arrive on Friday evening with more showers forecast for raceday itself.

Ffos Las passed a Friday morning precautionary inspection and the meeting goes ahead on ground officially described as ‘heavy, soft in places’.

Latest going and inspection newsFRIDAY

Southwell – All-Weather

Catterick – Soft, Heavy in places

Ffos Las – Heavy, Soft in places PRECAUTIONARY INSPECTION PASSED

Wolverhampton – All-Weather

Dundalk – All-Weather

SATURDAY

Leopardstown – INSPECTION 08:00 Saturday

Sandown – Chase: Soft, Heavy in places; Hurdle: Heavy, Soft in places INSPECTION 07:30 Saturday

Musselburgh – Good to Soft, Soft in places

Lingfield – All-Weather

Wetherby – Soft, Heavy in places

Newcastle – All-Weather

SUNDAY

Leopardstown – Chase: Yielding to Soft; Hurdle: Soft to Heavy

Market Rasen – Chase: Soft, Good to Soft in places; Hurdle: Good to Soft, Soft in places

Musselburgh – Good to Soft, Soft in places

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