SATURDAY'S rearranged Coral Welsh National meeting at Chepstow is likely to hinge on a "last minute" decision.

More rain overnight in Wales has not helped matters, but clerk of the course Keith Ottesen would have been able to give the green light if the meeting was today.

However, even more rain is forecast and the meeting could still be in the balance.

"We had nine millimetres yesterday evening which we could have done without and I didn't really envisage - I've taken the forecasters to task," Ottesen told At The Races.

"At the moment we've got some horrible, deep, heavy ground, but because it hasn't rained since midnight, we would be racing today.

"The forecasts are almost meaningless. We had some rain over the weekend and I thought that might be it for a couple of days bar a few light showers, but over Monday and Tuesday we had an inch of rain.

"Tonight there is an organised band of rain coming in which will be with us most of the night with another 10 to 12mm which isn't going to help.

"However, we get another break in the day tomorrow, showers on Friday but the biggest threat we have is though we start off fine on Saturday, if the rain gets organised by midday and continues.

"We've all been around long enough to know it's probably going to be a last minute decision. We are desperate to get this on, we don't want a blank year, especially when we've worked hard to rearrange."