HARRY Fry has been dealt a blow as smart hurdler Jolly’s Cracked It will not run again this season after sustaining a tendon injury.

The seven-year-old dead-heated with Sternrubin in the Ladbroke at Ascot last month but his campaign has been brought to a premature halt.

The Seaborough handler said: “It’s just as well that Jolly’s Cracked It hung on in the photo-finish as he has picked up a small tendon injury that rules him out for the rest of the sea- son.

“It only came to light recently. It’s such a shame. Hopefully he will come back as good as new next season.

“We will see which way we go when he comes back, but I know that the owners are keen to go down the chasing route.’’ Meanwhile, Saturday’s rearranged Coral Welsh National meeting at Chepstow is likely to hinge on a “last minute’’ decis- ion.

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.

Colin Tizzard has two runners listed in the big race — Theatre Guide (14-1) and Masters Hill (16-1) — and are featured among 33 horses confirmed at the five-day stage.

“We had nine millimetres on Tuesday 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.

“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.

“Last night there was 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 got another break in the day yesterday, 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 decis- ion.

"We are desperate to get this on, we don’t want a blank year, especially when we’ve worked hard to rearrange.’’