FFOS Las clerk of the course Tim Long admitted to being "devastated" after being forced to abandon last Saturday's high-profile fixture due to a frozen track.

The Carmarthenshire venue was due to stage its biggest meeting of the National Hunt calendar, with Oscar Whisky — who runs in the colours of Ffos Las owner Dai Walters — set to defend his crown in the William Hill Welsh Champion Hurdle.

But after consecutive nights of freezing temperatures, Long had little option but to call off the card.

Long said: "On Thursday night temperatures got down to minus 6C and that is what has really done the damage.

"We did look into running the meeting on Sunday but logistically, it just wasn't going to be possible. There are various reasons and we just weren't able to put a team together at such a late stage.

"We don't want tell people that we're rescheduling and then find out we haven't got the team for racing to go ahead.

"We're absolutely devastated as everyone has worked incredibly hard to try to get racing on."