Wash Out At Newcastle

NEWS Saturday 10th June 2017, 7:00pm

by Toby Lerone

  Edinburgh Monarchs

Parsons Peebles Monarchs visit to Newcastle on Sunday evening has been called off. The decision was taken early by the Newcastle management as there is no chance of the track recovering from a week of very heavy rain.

Said Newcastle co-promoter George English, "We just can't see how we can get the track ready in time. The greyhound meeting at the stadium will keep us off the track until Sunday morning and as the greyhound people run vehicles round our track during their meetings then we will need to recover from that also."

No new date has yet been agreed although it is possible that the match will go back to its original staging date of 30th July. Confirmation will follow in due course.

Ricky Wells would not have been fit to race in the match anyway. He is very sore down his left side after his fall in heat 11 on Friday night. He was anticipating visiting his local hospital over the weekend to have some damage to his ribs checked out.