With Leopardstown and Limerick providing the festive racing viewing in Ireland this Christmas, today we’ll have to go without the latter.
A brief statement from the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board on Twitter this morning confirmed the details.
Following 18mm of rain @LimerickRaces was found to be waterlogged & unfit for racing. With further rain forecast the fixture scheduled for today has been cancelled & there will be an 8am precautionary inspection at 8am tomorrow (Monday) morning ahead of the fixture scheduled pic.twitter.com/VjfacpTps8
— IHRB (@ihrb_ie) December 27, 2020
“Following 18mm of rain @LimerickRaces was found to be waterlogged & unfit for racing. With further rain forecast, the fixture scheduled for today has been cancelled & there will be an 8 am precautionary inspection at 8 am tomorrow (Monday) morning ahead of the fixture scheduled”.
Leopardstown goes ahead.
Leopardstown saw 16mm of rain fall overnight so things have “slowed down a little bit” per this morning’s course update.
🗣️ Lorcan Wyer
📍 @LeopardstownRC
🌱 Ground update
💦 Following 16mm of rain
🌤 Latest weather forecast
🏆 Grade 1 racing
🏇🏻 Details of racing lines
⌚️ First race 12.05pm
📺 Live on @RTEracing & @RacingTV
👨🏻💻 Declarations close for Day 4 with @HRI_RAS at 10am today pic.twitter.com/2q66jdzp2c— IHRB (@ihrb_ie) December 27, 2020
