Four horse racing meetings off after extreme heat warning
A rare red heat warning by the Met Office leads to four of Britain's five scheduled horse racing meetings on Wednesday to be abandoned.
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"We just have to be sensible. We try to work the horses earlier and get the main bits of work done before the sun really comes up and, with travelling, the lorries have fans in them now to keep the temperatures down."
— Alex Hales , Athlete
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A rare red heat warning by the Met Office leads to four of Britain's five scheduled horse racing meetings on Wednesday to be abandoned.
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