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I believe that if the ground is on the good side before the festival with no significant rain forecast that they would water to try and make it gd/soft for the first day of the festival.
Is this correct?
If so would they water in the week/after racing to try to make the ground gd/soft for the gold cup or is it a case of you get what you get and they dont interfere with the ground once the festival is underway?
Obviously I am Team Elegant Escape and I ideally want gd/soft ground but I wondered about the festival watering policy.
Obviously if its soft or heavy there is not anything that can be done.
I’m not overly concerned what the ground is and there would be no excuses due to any ground but gd/soft is my wish in a perfect world.
Yeah they typically water to make it g/s to start if necessary. I think if it went very good throughout the week, they’d water the evening before?
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Hindsight is 20/20 so make the most of it!Just before racing begins on the tuesday i think potato, thats it unless it was extremely warm for that time of year and it dried oht again.
Every chance the ground will be closer to good than good to soft on all days even after watering..
Weather will turn soon enough.
I wouldn’t like to guess what the ground will be and any ground is possible.
I have never known a winter start so late as this so who knows what will be happening mid March. I wouldn’t rule out snow or the uk being hotter than dubai or anywhere in between.
Haha Ittl be soft/heavy the day of, this weather will only last so long, obviously im guessing before anyone sais the obvious
Water it Monday for Tuesday, GS/Soft in places is the target.
If it’s quick, they’ve watered Wednesday for Thursday before, with the courses changing.
https://m.accuweather.com/en/gb/cheltenham/gl53-7/extended-weather-forecast/328267?page=2
Long term weather forecast for cheltenham:
8th March / Rain and snow shower
9th/ Showers and thunderstorms
10th/ Steady rain
11th/ Showers and a thunderstorm
12th DAY 1/ shower in morning
13th DAY 2/ Cloudy
14th DAY 3/ Cloudy
15th DAY 4/ Cloudy
16th /thunderstormsLooks like there is going to be a lot of rain about leading up to the festival. That can come as no surprise because we are due a deluge of rain.
Cheltenham racecourse could look more like a lake if this is accurate especially if the 3 cloudy days weds, thu and fri get rain.
Tugboat needed imo
The long term forecast website I use suggests there will be little rain between now and the end of the month ( 20mm accumulated in the South West and much of England ) another high pressure next weekend but early March could see cold air from the Arctic drop into Scandinavia and Central Europe – similar to last Spring.
Forecast now is for warm front moving in from South on Wednesday – still starting cold on Tuesday but gradually becoming warmer
A different forecast is rain every day starting Thursday and lasting til next Tuesday.
Thunderstorms mid festival are predicted. Could be a swamp by the friday。
Looks much more likely to be a testing cheltenham than a good ground festival, that’s how it looks. Makes sense we are due a lot of rainfall and sooner or later it will come.
Give me any ground my legend of a chaser is in no way ground dependant. EE wins on good still. No probs.
All the different ground will change is which horse comes 2nd。
Predicted accumulated precipitation over next 7 days is no more than 30mm, possibly as low as 13mm, Potato
By the start of the festival, it’s 40mm ( which basically means G/S, Soft in places at worst )
The current official going is gd/soft (good in places).
It looks almost certain to rain every single day in cheltenham upto next weekend.
7 day forecast tends to be fairly accurate.
The 14 day forecasts are all suggesting thunderstorms and heavy rain in festival week.
Its looking like its going to be absolutely brutal conditions.
Could end up being a smaller field than they expected with conditions looking potentially abysmal.The courses official going is likely to be soft by Sunday.
Potato
The man in charge of the course has stated that the amount of rain theyre getting divide by the amount of says upto the fes, theyll likely have to water, your a mile off unless the forecast does a 180, thunder unfortunately doesnt make ground soft, only heavy rain, which isnt really forecasted and cheltenham drains extremely well…
We will see what they sayer
When they meet Storm FreyaThe insanely wet Storm Freya hits cheltenham on Sunday.
If you think this is a normal weather year and they need to water to get it gd/sft for day 1 then think again.
Forget about traditional weather seasons in the uk
The wet season has arrived
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