Drought-hit Ludlow pressured to cancel 2026-27 season

Ludlow Racecourse has been pressured to cancel your complete 2026-27 season following a go to from British Horseracing Authority inspectors to look at the injury carried out to the grass on the Shropshire course by the summer season drought.

After having to maneuver the primary scheduled assembly of the season on 15 October to Worcester, 35 miles away, it was hoped that the best climate situations would encourage re-sown grass to develop.

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However they then needed to cancel two additional conferences – and Thursday’s go to from the BHA has now confirmed managing director Simon Sherwood’s worst fears.

Together with the primary two conferences already misplaced and subsequent week’s initially scheduled assembly on Monday, 23 November, which had already been referred to as off, it means a complete of 14 race conferences could have been cancelled.

They won’t race there once more till October 2027, because the course is given time to get well correctly – within the hope that subsequent summer season doesn’t show as extreme as this summer season and its record-breaking temperatures.

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