All three of Thursday's British fixtures go ahead as Taunton, Lingfield and Musselburgh survive inspections

All three of Thursday's fixtures in Britain survived inspections with Taunton, Lingfield and Musselburgh's seven-race cards to go ahead as normal. 

Taunton's clerk of the course Jason Loosemore had been optimistic about the prospects of racing going ahead at the Somerset venue but called a 7am inspection on raceday due to the temperature falling below 0C and the possibility of snow overnight.

Loosemore's confidence was vindicated with the track free of snow and frost on inspection and the going is good, good to soft in places with the first race at 12.17pm.

Lingfield will also race on Thursday after coming through an inspection. Temperatures dipped to as low as -3C at the Surrey venue but the track is raceable. The meeting gets under way at 12.05pm and the going is good to soft on the chase course and good to soft, soft in places on the hurdles course.

Musselburgh's card begins at 11.55am after coming through its inspection after temperatures had to dropped to -1C. The going at the Scottish track is good to soft, soft in places. No inspection was needed at Thurles, the sole Irish fixture on Thursday which features the Listed Make Your Best Bet At BetVictor Chase. The going is yielding, good to yielding in places.

Carlisle has already cancelled its chase races for Sunday's meeting, with temperatures set to drop below freezing consistently overnight up until raceday.

The card had been due to feature the Listed Houghton Mares' Chase, but is one of the contests scrapped to allow resources to be allocated fully to the hurdles track. Two additional hurdle races will be added to make it a six-race card.

The BHA announced a jumpers' bumper card will be staged at Southwell on Sunday due to the expected cold weather forecast at the weekend.

Entries for the seven-race card will close at midday on Thursday, with declarations to be made at 10am on Friday.

The BHA said that no all-weather Flat fixtures will be added, with the scheduled break for Flat jockeys still ongoing.

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