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Snow claims Huntingdon card

ASCOT, ENGLAND - JANUARY 19: Snow causes the race meeting to be abandoned at Ascot racecourse on January 19, 2013 in Ascot, England. (Photo by Alan Crowhur

This afternoon's meeting at Huntingdon has been abandoned due to snow.

The track was due to stage a seven-race card highlighted by the Betfred Peterborough Chase but snow has scuppered their chances of racing.

Clerk of the course Jack Pryor said: "There's three centimetres of snow on the track that has fallen in the last hour or so and it is forecast to continue all morning with freezing temperatures too.

"We had covered the track, but the snow means we can't lift those covers and there is always a risk when you do that further snow would just then settle."

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Course officials will now discuss the possibility of rescheduling the Peterborough Chase with the British Horseracing Authority and Pryor added: "We will definitely have those discussions, but I don't think there would be any decisions on that until Monday."