Great Leighs have announced, at the request of the British Horseracing Authority, that there will be an inspection tomorrow morning at 9am to decide whether or not the racecourse is able to race tomorrow afternoon. This inspection has been called as work that the Great Leighs management was to have carried out since last Friday has not been completed, and follows a visit to Great Leighs by Nicky Carlisle, BHA Inspector of Courses, this afternoon.
Paul Struthers, BHA spokesman, said:
鈥淲hen we issued Great Leighs with their licence before their first meeting on 20 April, there were conditions attached, which meant there was further work that needed to be completed before their meeting on the 28th May.
鈥淣icky Carlisle, one of the BHA鈥檚 Inspectors of Courses, visited the course last Friday to check on progress and in two particular areas, namely access for emergency vehicles and the judge鈥檚 tower, progress was not as good as we hoped. We were assured, and it was perfectly feasible, that the work would be completed over the weekend.
鈥淣icky has visited again today and the work has still not been completed, and we are now being assured the work will be completed by tomorrow morning. This is why the inspection has been called as we don鈥檛 want to unnecessarily abandon a meeting, which will of course result in lost opportunities to run for connections.
鈥淲hilst we expect the course to pass the inspection, this is an unsatisfactory situation to say the least.鈥�
