Today’s Sports Schedule: Tuesday 17th March

The pick of today’s sporting action

With the ever-increasingsafety measures throughout the world of sport to control the spread of the coronavirus,we’ve seen many of the biggest sports events already cancelled or postponed.

After April’s Grand National atAintree was officially cancelled, the Premier League suspended, the Six Nationspostponed and in golf, the US Masters suspended too, the sports community are helpingto prevent the spread of the virus.

There are still some sportsevents taking place as normal, or behind closed doors, across the globe. Welook at the best sports left on offer today…

Horse Racing

Today will see the last horse racing meets in the UK until at least the end of April. The initial plan was to hold meets behind closed doors, but the British Horseracing Authority has now suspended racing entirely. There will still be International Racing, for the time being.

There’s action from four racemeets today. There are two meets from Ireland coming from Down Royaland Wexford, with action on English soil coming from Wetherby andTaunton.

Down Royal gets underway at13:50, with seven races. Wetherby also hosts seven races, with the firstgetting started at 14:00. Wexford racing begins at 14:05 with seven on thecard, before Taunton rounds things off with six races starting at 14:15.

Greyhounds

There’s plenty of action fromacross the country at the greyhound tracks, with 11 meetings from the likes ofMonmore, Crayford, Hove and Nottingham.