Naas will stage its rescheduled Grade 1 card on Friday following a precautionary inspection at 7.30am.

The meeting was originally due to take place last Sunday but had to be postponed due to a frozen track.

On Friday morning, clerk of the course Brendan Sheridan reported: "Racing goes ahead, Temperatures did get down to -1C overnight but we are all good to go. The ground on the chase track is yielding to soft and the hurdle track is yielding, yielding to soft in places. The forecast for today is for a very mild and sunny afternoon."

The seven-race card starts at 12.43pm and the featured Grade 1 Ballymore Novice Hurdle is due off at 1.43pm.

There is also racing on Friday at Dundalk (starts 3.25pm), Exeter and Newcastle.

Fairyhouse Saturday

The main track at Fairyhouse was described as yielding (hurdles) and yielding, good to yielding in places (chases) on Thursday.

Temperatures may fall to -1C on Saturday morning, rising to 4 degrees through the day, so officials will monitor the situation.

Punchestown Sunday and Monday

Following 2mm of rain and temperatures above freezing, Punchestown was said to be fit for racing on Thursday afternoon. The ground is yielding, yielding to soft in places (hurdles) and yielding to soft (chases).

There is a possibilty of temperatures dropping to -1C tonight and approximately 3-5mm of rain through to Saturday, turning more unsettled on Sunday with up to approximately 10mm of rain. It is likely to be mainly dry on Monday with the possibility of occasional light showers.

British racing

Kempton’s Lanzarote Hurdle meeting on Saturday goes ahead. The track, also due to stage the Silviniaco Conti Chase, had been frozen all week but made "remarkable improvement" on Thursday. An inspection has been scheduled for 2pm on Friday but by 11am officials were happy to give racing the all-clear.

Warwick inspection

Warwick’s Classic Chase card must also survive a 2pm inspection on Friday.

While there had been a good deal of improvement on Wednesday, that had slowed down on Thursday and there is the risk the forecast up to 25mm of rain could fall as snow.

Nessie Chanter, clerk of the course, said: “We’ve had a foggy day today so we haven’t seen much movement meaning we’re still frozen in places.

“We are due quite a lot of rain tonight and we are hoping that remains as rain, if it does turn to snow it will be preceded by more rain. That’s 20-25mm tonight.

“We’ll know a lot more in the morning and we’ll inspect at 2pm.”

Southwell’s jumps meeting on Friday went by the wayside after an inspection on Thursday afternoon with the course still unraceable in places, while Wolverhampton’s all-weather card on Friday will need to pass a 9.30am inspection due to the possibility of snow.

Officials at Huntingdon made an early decision regarding their Friday card, which was due to feature the Chateris Fen Juvenile Hurdle, and after failing a 9am inspection the meeting was abandoned.

Exeter passed an inspection on on Thursday morning but called a precautionary 8am check ahead of racing on Friday. The course is raceable but there are weather warnings for wind and snow in place overnight.

Sunday’s meeting at Kelso has been abandoned due to a frozen track.