Sodden Pontefract abandon meeting
Monday afternoons meeting in Pontefract has been abandoned because of a waterlogged track.
The course survived an inspection Sunday however issued a proviso that any rain would set the meeting in peril.
Unfortunately with rain totalling almost five millimetres on Sunday the track could take and it had been waterlogged in areas.
Millimetres has fallen since only September 22 and rain is forecast throughout Monday.
Pontefract has one meeting at 2019, its season finale on October 21.
Even the racecourses official Twitter account posted:After a further 4.5mm rain Sunday evening falling on saturated ground and with additional heavy rain forecast today, racing was abandoned.
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