Officials at Wetherby will inspect the course at 7.30 a.m. to see if today's meeting can go ahead. And Redcar will inspect at 2.30 p.m to see if tomorrow's meeting will beat the elements.

The Wetherby stewards looked at the course at 3 p.m. yesterday and are "reasonably optimistic" that the National Hunt card will get the thumbs up.

A spokeswoman at Wetherby said: "They are inspecting again at 7.30 a.m. The course is still slightly waterlogged in places but is no worse than it was this morning when we were still reasonably optimistic."

The ground remains soft, waterlogged in places while at Redcar the ground is officially described as soft, heavy in places, by clerk of the course John Gundill.

The course holds the first day of a two-day meeting tomorrow and Gundill added yesterday: "Water has started to hold in the surface - in particular in one part of the course. We've had a mostly dry day today and if it stayed like that I'd be hopeful we'd have no problems. However, the forecast for tonight and tomorrow is not good." Yesterday's meeting at Sedgefield was abandoned after the course was found to be waterlogged in several places but the Ayr fixture got the go-ahead.

The meeting scheduled for Haydock today was called off on Monday but Lingfield's all-weather meeting looks most unlikely to be in doubt.