RACING/Digest: There will be no chases at Thurles tomorrow but there is also no inspection planned for the rest of the track.

"We are happy enough with the hurdles track and we hope the chase track will dry out suitably for the meeting on Sunday. It's the take off and landing areas that are a problem," said the Thurles manager Pierse Molony.

Top Japanese jockey Yutaka Take will be out of action for several months after breaking his pelvis in an horrific fall at Nakayama racecourse on Sunday.

"His horse broke down and fell, he tipped over, then the horse fell on him. He'll be sidelined for a few months," his French agent Patrick Barbe said yesterday.

"He has a broken pelvis, but apparently it is not very bad. But he will need at least one month without moving and then start rehabilitation.

"He will be sidelined for three months at least and he hopes to get right for Deauville in August."

Martin Pipe hit out at an "underhand" swoop by testers from the Jockey Club on his stable yesterday morning.

The nine-time champion jumps trainer was angry at the unannounced visit to his Somerset stable which he claimed upset preparations just a fortnight before the Cheltenham Festival and "looks bad for racing".

But Jockey Club press officer John Maxse stressed that the action by its veterinary department is a sign of racing's determination to deal seriously with the issue, and he believes the moves will back up a belief that drug abuse is "minimal".

Five stables in all, including those of Paul Nicholls and Venetia Williams, were visited by teams from the Jockey Club, who took around 350 equine blood samples for analysis.

Yards were chosen either at random or on the basis of "intelligence received" and Pipe was one of the first to admit that his stable was involved.