Punchestown passes morning inspection

Racing: This afternoon’s National Hunt meeting at Punchestown will go ahead as scheduled after the course passed an 8am inspection…

Racing:This afternoon's National Hunt meeting at Punchestown will go ahead as scheduled after the course passed an 8am inspection.

Most of the country has been hit by torrential rain in the past few days but thankfully it stopped in time to enable the course to fulfil its fixture.

The seven-race card will begin at 2.15pm but not surprisingly the ground has been described as heavy.

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