The ground at Leopardstown has dried out remarkably quickly following flooding earlier this week.

Following two or three days of incessant rain, Leopardstown was unfit for racing on Tuesday morning and a video recorded at the track showed huge pools of water on the racing surface.

This led to speculation that this weekend's Dublin Racing Festival could be affected but clerk of the course Paddy Graffin reported a much brighter state of affairs on Wednesday afternoon.

"I'm pleased to say that the track is fit for racing," he said. "I'm standing actually in an area that was considered probably to be the most famous area of any racetrack in Ireland, where this looked more like the River Liffey yesterday than a racetrack."

Graffin went on to say: "In my opinion, the chase track is soft. It may dry. It's a lovely, bright, warm day here, 10 degrees with a bit of a breeze. It could dry a little bit into tomorrow morning. But at the moment, soft.

"The hurdle track, I call that heavy. Now, when I say heavy, I mean loose on both tracks. Because of all the rain, it's loose. We've had a total of 170mm of rainfall over the last 12 days.

"We have a little bit of rain between here and the weekend. Forecasts are a bit in and out. At the moment we're getting all sorts of forecasts, but anything from 10mm to 20mm, most of that coming Thursday night into Friday morning, with mainly dry throughout most of Friday into Saturday morning.

"If that's right, we're confident that that won't pose any problems. We're in a really good place here.

"I would add that we've got fresh ground for Sunday."

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