Saturday’s cards at Cheltenham and Doncaster have been abandoned after temperatures dropped to minus 5C overnight at both venues.
Frost sheets were deployed at Cheltenham after racing on Friday, but as the mercury began to drop it became a race against time.
It took clerk of the course Jon Pullin and his team around three hours to cover the whole of the New Course, which is used for the two-day International meeting, but in the end their efforts were in vain.
