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Musselburgh remain hopeful of racing on Sunday despite calling a precautionary inspection for 7am on raceday morning.

The Scottish venue is currently frozen in places but general manager Bill Farnsworth is expecting to see sufficient improvement ahead of their Cheltenham Festival Trials card.

He said: "The forecast is good. The ground is still partly frozen but it only got down to 0C overnight, so it didn't get any worse which is good news. We are forecast a dry and bright day today with temperatures of 3C and then some cloud is moving in and it could go to 0C overnight."

Farnsworth added: "Tomorrow we are forecast sleet turning to rain during the day, maybe four to five millimetres, quite breezy with temperatures of 6C falling to 0C overnight.

"Sunday is forecast to be bright and sunny with temperatures of 6C or 7C so we are very, very optimistic.

"We've called an inspection but we will have a look tomorrow and if we're heading in the right direction, we may be able to give it the go-ahead then."

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