Races to be held behind closed doors
Wetherby’s two-day Christmas meeting will go ahead behind closed doors after the Government chose to maintain current Tier 3 restrictions over the festive period.
The track, which stages the Rowland Meyrick Chase on Boxing Day and Castleford Chase 24 hours later, would have been Wetherby’s first meeting since the Covid crisis with paying spectators.
It would only have been allowed to admit 1,000 at Christmas – and then up to 2,000 people at subsequent meetings.
Chief executive Jonjo Sanderson said the course was, nevertheless, working with the rest of racing on measures to welcome back as many spectators as possible as soon as it was practical to do so.