Tomorrow's National Hunt meeting at Carlisle Racecourse has been abandoned due to frozen ground.

This follows a course inspection which took place this afternoon.

Geraldine McKay, Carlisle Racecourse’s Ggeneral manager, said: “Having re-inspected the course this afternoon, it is still frozen and with the forecast now seeing temperatures drop to -3C overnight, we have taken the decision to abandon racing.

“This follows a week or more of very cold weather, with the track being frozen for most of the past five days.

“All pre-booked tickets will be automatically refunded.”

The next race meeting at Carlisle will be on Wednesday, February 7 2018.