Could Coronavirus cancel the Festival?

[Hurricane fly]

Crowds have been down roughly 10% as a result of it, and nice to see queues for the sinks in the gents for the first time in history at a sporting event

[ryanh97]

Crowds have been down roughly 10% as a result of it, and nice to see queues for the sinks in the gents for the first time in history at a sporting event

I miss the good old days when we all used to walk out

[luisgarciaisgod]

Was supposed to be flying over this morning for SeanRock's stag but with 2 of the lads having had newborn babies and Sean's wedding in 2 weeks we stayed at home

[ryanh97]

Football bites the dust until 4th April. Thank god cheltenham fell in the calendar when it did

[Hurricane fly]

If all sport follows suit it would be all guns blazing for the nash aswell!

[Kevloaf]

Football bites the dust until 4th April. Thank god cheltenham fell in the calendar when it did

Yeah, wow.



It would have broken me, being cancelled.

[charlie]

Yeah, wow.

It would have broken me, being cancelled.

This 45 pages would have been 345 pages had cheltenham been a week later. So so lucky it has gone ahead

[Faugheen_Machine]

Sounds like racing will be going behind closed doors for a while, possibly until end of June is being reported.

[Hurricane fly]

Officially just until the end of the month though?

Clearly trying to give the National every chance although Nicholls seemed pretty resigned to it not going ahead as planned

[ryanh97]

Grand national is off

[ryanh97]

I'd imagine we'll be facing racing being called off indefinitely at the BHA meeting tomorrow. No emergency services at events means no ambulances for jockeys?

[Istabraq]

Yep I’d imagine so ryan.
Two ambulance teams need to be in attendance for a race to start, I can’t imagine racing will be afforded preferential treatment, if it is every other sport/event will raise the question

[charlie]

How lucky were we! Jesus, 2-3 more days and we would have lost Cheltenham

[archie]

In all seriousness, anyone with substantial amounts deposited with bookies, particularly the small ones, should consider claiming it back for the short term at least. I'm looking at reclaiming about 90% of my deposits as I will be pretty much inactive for the next 6 months.

[ryanh97]

As expected, BHA confirm no racing in Britain until end of April