Kempton forced to postpone jumps start again

Kempton forced to postpone jumps start again

By Racing TV
Last Updated: Mon 2 Nov 2026
The Jockey Club has announced the abandonment of next Monday’s National Hunt meeting at Kempton, with track officials still unable to achieve the safe ground conditions required for National Hunt racing.The Sunbury venue was due to kick off its jumps season on Sunday, October 18, but that card was called off following the prolonged dry spell and there has been no significant improvement in the past two weeks.Kempton’s next scheduled National Hunt fixture is on Monday, November 23, and clerk of the course Barney Clifford is praying for rain between now and then.He said: “It’s disappointing for everybody really, but we are in a drought situation.“The ground is firm, good to firm in places. We had 56mm of rain last weekend, which didn’t really make a lot of difference. We’ve been irrigating since June 25 and we just need some help and some natural rainfall.“I’d be hopeful for November 23 because there is rain on the forecast from November 10 onwards. We haven’t had any rainfall really, even for the whole month of October we only had 56mm, so it’s unprecedented.”
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