Three races during Haydock's William Hill Temple Stakes card have been called off after a hole was discovered on the round course during the first race.Racing has been switched to the inner course after John and Thady Gosden trainee Friendly Soul (Kingman) took a false step in Saturday's opener, the Listed William Hill Epic Boost British EBF Hedge Of Oak Stakes. The 2-1 favourite was pulled up after the incident.Haydock's clerk of the course Dan Cooper told ITV Racing, “In the first race Friendly Soul took a misstep so we asked our team to go and take a look at the surface as we would do at anytime and our head groundsman reported an issue was found.“I suggested this is formal inspection grounds and we have looked at the track and decided there is a significant drainage issue and it seems to be a hole from our drainage system that has caused the misstep and therefore this wouldn't be safe to race on today, that was my advice to the BHA.”The day's second, fifth and seventh races set for the round course are the affected races. The William Hill Silver Bowl Handicap (Heritage Handicap) over a mile, the William Hill Best Odds Guaranteed Handicap going two miles and the one-mile William Hill Each Way Extra Handicap will not take place.Cooper added, “Driving down to the inspection I said I was amazed because we have lots of people walking on this track each hour and no one has gone down that [hole] yet.“I wonder what does cause these things and it could potentially be the grass covering it as we do inspections every day and I walk this track frequently.“We don't know and it's really hard and what's the cause of it? Well it's soil, it's science, it's drainage and quite a complex area.“We went to have a look at the inside track as we'd been racing on it for two days.“There were soft divots and the odd heavy divot on the inside that we were able to sand this morning so the stalls are going to go in the centre with the expected knowledge from the jockeys to not race on the inside.”The post Trio Of Races Abandoned On Haydock’s Round Course Due To Drainage Issues appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.