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Ground of the festival?

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So common folks, it looks like we are in for a soft ground Cheltenham. For me, it causes a lot of issues, as all my betting is based on the normal good to soft ground. I just wonder if u will have the same problem. Cant see my 2018 being as good as the past few year's. Trying to remember the past time the festival starred with heavy ground!!
 
That should be ground for the festival...
 
Isn't good to soft still big odds on like every year? I'm not sure I'd pay too much attention beyond a 5 day forecast as after that the margin of error is pretty big
 
It's far too early to tell what the ground will be. Two days of dry weather and it'll be riding on the good side imo
 
Still plenty of time yet ziggm .... 1/5 for Good to Soft....
 
Kevloaf said:
Still plenty of time yet ziggm .... 1/5 for Good to Soft....
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Agree with that Kev. Accuweather forecast is for up to 6 inches of snow between now and Friday (translates to 0.6 inches of precipitation) and then pretty negligible rain up to and through the meeting with daily temps in the 8-10c range throughout. Can see people complaining about poor grass growth but g/s has to be favourite (and possibly watering the weekend before)
 
I guess it depends what forecast u look at. The one I am looking at isn't great.
 
ziggym said:
I guess it depends what forecast u look at. The one I am looking at isn't great.
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I wou;dn't worry about your bets just yet.... forecasting is exactly that... a forecast - and isn't accurate.

Sometimes it can be wrong on the day...

Put your time in to other pastures .... OR, consider a NRNB accy on heavy ground horses? :)
 
I think it will be soft or the slow side of good to soft
Other than Might Bite, I’m in a decent position in terms of ground - not relying on many good ground horses

I’ve gone in with NRNB on American and starting to load up on UDS
 
It certainly won't be heavy...
 
I know it is 2 weeks away
But is anyone concerned about the possibility of the frost covers going down ?
This happened a few years ago and when they were removed for racing it provided dead ground
Just a thought
 
Wasn't it heavy last time I looked a while back . It's been chucking it down since then so I can't imagine its dried out since. The forecast weather is bad as we all know . The ground staff will be putting down covers and matting and do a heroic job to produce the best possible surface. Fresh ground is under wraps so at least it won't be cut up rough not until after the 3rd race anyway! It looks like Very soft or Heavy to me fellas.
 
I live less than a mile from the course and will happily provide updates over the next couple of weeks. There has been virtually no rain here for a week now but it has been cold with heavy overnight frosts in the last couple of days, which are due to persist until the weekend. There has been a dusting of snow this morning. There are no covers on the course as there is snow forecast overnight Thursday into Friday. It is then due to warm up a bit but no immediate sign of the spring weather that Claisse wants for the grass to grow. As the frost comes out of the ground and the snow melts, this is ground is likely to be sticky and holding. Even he won't be daft enough to water it........:confused:
 
I think the going was heavy for Trials Day BF but it hasn’t been deeper than soft since.
It hasn’t been wet either.
There are showers forecast over the next 10 days but no significant rainfall so even when the snow/frost disappears I can’t see the ground bein testing, dead maybe.
The issue is air temperature as there’s no grass growth...
 
Claisse quoted yesterday saying not worried good to soft all round at the moment.
 
Despite the Beast From The East starting to bite into the racing programme, Cheltenham clerk of the course Simon Claisse is feeling upbeat with the Festival due to kick off in two weeks' time.

He is expecting cold conditions at Prestbury Park in the coming days, but reports the long-range forecast to be favourable at this stage.

He told Racing UK: "Undoubtedly this cold spell of weather that's coming from the east is heading our way Temperatures have been down to minus 5C so far on the track this week, we expect those to go down to minus 7C or minus 8C. We've not covered the course because there's some significant snowfall forecast on Thursday and Friday.

"Beyond that, it's looking as though the weather will turn considerably less cold, with rain coming in possibly Sunday or Monday next week with temperatures slowly going upwards.

"It's a long way off at the moment, but there are some strong signals that come a fortnight at the beginning of the Festival, we will be into a mild airflow."



Gd to soft for the supreme 1/5
 
That's what i just Love about this Forum !, I just posted in the ryanair chs thread , mainly about the weather, As i always start at
the bottom of the page and work upwards , I have only just seen this thread ,
Always someone ahead of the game !!.
 
Paddy power just made Good to soft 4/11 was 1/6 a few hours ago. Soft ground now 2/1
 
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