UPDATE: This evening’s meeting at Worcester has been abandoned following significant rainfall this afternoon.

This evening’s meeting at Worcester is now subject to a 2.30pm precautionary inspection.

Although the jumps fixture was given the go-ahead this morning, further rainfall this afternoon has clouded the issue.

Clerk of the course Fergus Cameron said: “We’ve now had 6.5 millimetres of rain in the last half an hour.

“We need the rain to stop.”