Saturday's race meeting at Newcastle has been abandoned, with the Gosforth Park track waterlogged.
Officials held an early afternoon inspection and were left with little choice.
"It's rained non-stop all morning and there's been almost half an inch of rain in the last 12 hours,'' said clerk of the course James Armstrong.
"There's water lying all over the place and elements of false ground.''
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