Racing in Britain: Wet weather has claimed four of this weekend's race meetings in Britain, leaving Fontwell to stage the only National Hunt fixture today. Officials at Uttoxeter abandoned today's scheduled jumps card, while tomorrow's meetings at Hexham and Newton Abbot have all fallen due to the recent rain.

That leaves just Fontwell to race on turf while Lingfield and Kempton will be in action on the all-weather today, with the latter venue racing again tomorrow.

Uttoxeter were due to stage the best jumps meeting of the weekend but heavy rain has left the track saturated and clerk of the course Keith Ottesen did not believe conditions would improve enough for their meeting to go ahead.

He said: "We have had to abandon as the rate of recovery has not been quick enough after the accumulation of rain in the last seven days. With another band of rain forecast to move in, it needs more help than it's getting."

Newton Abbot knew their fate early on and clerk of the course Jason Loosemore called off their Sunday meeting early yesterday morning. "We had another six millimetres of rain overnight so we called an earlier inspection than was first issued," he explained.

At Hexham, an inspection was initially called for 10am this morning but that was brought forward to 4pm yesterday. However, conditions were so bad at the Northumberland track that the meeting was called off earlier than expected.

"We had to bring the inspection forward again as it is still raining and there is no prospect of it drying out," said a course spokesman. "With the adverse weather and the rainfall it seemed the sensible thing to do."

Richard Hannon's Asset can make a winning seasonal reappearance in the Listed intercasino.co.uk Easter Stakes at Kempton today.

The son of Marju made steady progress last year, suffering a surprise defeat on his debut before stepping up to notch a stylish six-length success at Yarmouth.

Asset's last appearance as a juvenile came in the Group Three Solario Stakes at Sandown in August where, despite racing on unsuitably soft ground, he gave a performance of great credit, finishing third behind Opera Cape, beaten just under five lengths having set out to make all.

Reportedly working well at home prior to this, he has matured physically over the winter and could well prove a hard horse to catch.

Pinchbeck should run a big race in the seven-furlong Play Blackjack At intercasino.co.uk Handicap. Trained by Michael Jarvis, the seven-year-old gelding has been a credit to his connections over the years and was winning for the 10th time when beating Majik by three-quarters of a length in a six-furlong handicap at Southwell in January.

His subsequent efforts on the Fibresand over that trip have been pretty solid and he can mark his return to the Polytrack with another victory.