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SEDGEFIELD AND HUNTINGDON OFF

Britain is set for a day without jump racing tomorrow after the loss of the meeting at Sedgefield.

The fixture was called off due to waterlogging, two hours after the scheduled Huntingdon card had met the same fate.

'We have abandoned,' said a spokesman for Sedgefield. 'There is waterlogging more or less all over.

'We had 16mm of rain overnight, another 8mm this morning and it is still chucking it down.'

Tomorrow will not be an entirely blank day as Lingfield is due to stage an all-weather Flat meeting.

Tomorrow`s meeting at Huntingdon had become the week`s first victim of the current wet weather.

Racing was called off due to flooding this morning.

Clerk of the course Hugo Bevan said: 'We have abandoned. The river has risen very fast in the last two hours and it has now burst its banks.

'You can`t get into the course the normal way now, you have to come in the back way - and in two hours you won`t be able to get out that way either and we will be marooned.'

Officials at Newbury were today full of hope that Wednesday`s meeting will beat the rain.

Course spokesman Richard Osgood said this morning: 'We had 22.6mm of rain overnight and the ground is heavy.

'But at the moment there are no worries and no inspection is planned.'