NAVAN will stage the only Irish racemeeting this weekend when it hosts a seven-race flat card on Saturday.

Following an extremely wet week, Limerick's Saturday fixture and Sunday's high-class flat card at Naas were called off on Friday morning.

A further 10mm of rain on Thursday night left Limerick partially waterlogged and Naas found itself in a similar situation.

The Naas card, which features the Gladness and Alleged Stakes, has been rescheduled for next Friday afternoon, April 13th, which clashes with day two of the Aintree Grand National meeting.

Apart from Dundalk's usual Friday evening all-weather card, there was no racing in Ireland this week since Easter Monday.

Wednesday's cancelled flat card at Leopardstown has been rescheduled for Monday week, April 16th. The fixture was called off just before 9am on Wednesday morning following heavy overnight rain.

The cancellation follows the loss of Tuesday's fixture at Fairyhouse. That card has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 17th with fresh entries required for all races. The original Fairyhouse meeting scheduled for April 17th has been moved on by 48 hours to the evening of Thursday, April 19th.

Friday's jumps meeting at Wexford was called off just after a midday inspection on Wednesday.

Dundalk will also race next Tuesday instead of Tipperary where the track is waterlogged. The new Dundalk card will start at 4.30pm.

Only one of this weekend's five scheduled point-to-points is still standing - Dromahane in Mallow, Co Cork - though this track will be inspected at 2pm on Saturday. The points at Loughbrickland, Co Down, Courtown, Co Wexford, Rathcannon, Co Limerick and Dundalk, Co Louth, have all been called off. Both the Dundalk and Rathcannon meetings have been rescheduled for Sunday week, April 15th and the original entries stand. The Courtown fixture has been moved to April 21st.

The Ballymacad and Killeady point-to-points originally scheduled for April 15th have already been cancelled.

Met Eireann is forecasting Saturday and Sunday to be milder days with scattered heavy showers with the risk of the odd thundery downpour and good sunny spells. The forecast for the early days of next week is for more unsettled conditions.

In Britain, the Easter Monday's cards at Chepstow, Fakenham, Market Rasen, Huntingdon, Redcar and Plumpton were abandoned due to waterlogging. There was no turf racing in Britain on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.

Only Lingfield's all-weather card survived on Tuesday and three all-weather cards at Lingfield, Southwell and Kempton went ahead on Wednesday.

Wetherby's Friday card was another casualty, as is Saturday's Stratford fixture. Fontwell on Friday is still standing and an additional card at Fakenham has been scheduled for Saturday, to accompany Kelso and Uttoxeter. Exeter and Carlisle race on Sunday.

The BHA has added jump fixtures at Wincanton and Hereford on Monday and Tuesday respectively.

In addition, "due to the high level of interruption that has occurred throughout the second half of the season", the regulator said four further meetings will be offered to racecourses on Sundays throughout the rest of this month and into May to cater for the increased number of horses likely to be seeking a run before the end of the campaign.

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