That was the big problem last year, wasn't it, Stodge? My usual OTs desk colleague, who lives on the 'Mormon Temple' roundabout, which is only a couple of minutes from Lingfield, as you know, says they have 18 inches of snow. Her little Jack Russell bounded out of the horse for a wee this morning, and disappeared! She said he swam back to the house through the drift. The small surrounding roads haven't yet been cleared, so that's probably half the staff at the track who won't make it, or who won't want to risk, making it in. If too many of the BHA's required staff can't make it (I see one of the dog tracks had to abandon because the vet couldn't get in), then it's a no-go.
You're right about the usual whining about not being all weather. The tracks' surfaces, whether they're Polytrack or the mixes they've produced elsewhere, are fine all year round if they're correctly mixed and managed. It's the rest of the course and the outlying areas which aren't all weather! I know Neil sounds a bit more optimistic about tomorrow's card, but I doubt it will go ahead, mostly because of the problem of getting to the course, as you say. If key staff can't get in who are required by the BHA to be there, or half the caterers, and a lot of the horseboxes can't get up or down their own snowed-in country lanes, then it's stuffed.
