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Ascot may maintain an inspection of the course earlier than the beginning of racing on Friday, the fourth day of the Royal assembly, after greater than 20mm of rain from Thursday night modified the going to mushy, with extra rain forecast to fall all through the day.

The floor was good-to-agency for the primary two days of the assembly, whereas Chris Stickels, the clerk of the course, utilized round 4mm of water to your complete observe on Tuesday night to preserve it at that description. After 2.4mm of rain on Wednesday night, the turf was nonetheless good-to-agency for the Gold Cup card, however the drenching because the final race on Thursday has seen a speedy deterioration.

“We’re just about to go and walk it now with the stewards, which is a standard course of action anyway at this time of day,” Stickels instructed ITV Racing simply earlier than 10am. “But clearly we’ll simply monitor the situations. As we converse, I perceive that water is beginning to puddle on the market within the odd place … so we simply want to go and take a look at that. It’s been torrential, actually.

“I had another quick look at 7.30am and by then we’d had 20mm since yesterday. I haven’t been to the rain gauge since but it’s been pretty steady since then and conditions will continue to deteriorate. I should think it’s quite likely now [that there will be an inspection]. Unless it stops and improves by the time we get out there and look at it, I think we probably will need to have an inspection.”