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Cheltenham weather forecast

Istabraq said:
Not convinced what happens 75 miles away is guaranteed to be replicated at HQ.
Love the fact 112 comments on the weather and only 37 on the Grant National thread...
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SO true.

I appreciate the irony in my post here but WOW.
 
Sounds like you’ll need to go give them a hand forking the course in the morning Nick
 
I am presuming most people actually want to see the ground dry out as long range bets will have been placed on the basis of good to soft ground at worst?
 
kinloch brae said:
I am presuming most people actually want to see the ground dry out as long range bets will have been placed on the basis of good to soft ground at worst?
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I thought that.... do stil lthink it, but soft on day 1 wouldn't do me any harm.

I haven't actually checked later in the week properly.

Too far away still.

They get the forecasts wrong on the day, nevermind the day before, 2 days before or a week before.
 
I live 15 miles from Cheltenham an we had heavy rain through the night, as others i was hoping for drying ground (G-S at worst), the only horse i have running for me who might relish it a bit softer is UDS
 
14mm of rain recorded at Gloucester weather station. The one on Cleeve Hill hasn't updated for 3 hours, maybe it has flooded:devilish:
 
Bayoffreedom said:
Same amount on the course per their Twitter feed:

The ground is now SOFT, HEAVY IN PLACES. #TheFestival
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Thanks BoF. The next 48 hours unsettled so looks like we'll be starting on soft.
 
I think what amazed me was the turftrax map shows a lot of soft yellow with a little bit of green and yesterday 90% of the track was green within two days, if its warm like they said it would be over the weekend and only light rain I still would predict g/s soft in places..

Perfect ground for a lot of horses..
 
Sirbetalot said:
I think what amazed me was the turftrax map shows a lot of soft yellow with a little bit of green and yesterday 90% of the track was green within two days, if its warm like they said it would be over the weekend and only light rain I still would predict g/s soft in places..

Perfect ground for a lot of horses..
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Doesn’t take much. I think it was the Paddy Power in November it was officially good to soft on the Friday and got really testing after the rain throughout Saturday morning.
 
I haven't been to a festival when it's raining but I imagine it is as absolute nightmare.
 
Clerk of the course Simon Claisse: "I don't envisage the ground drying out considerably in time for Tuesday – we may shed the heavy in places depending on how much we get through the forecast showers, but I wouldn't see it reversing to good to soft."

Credit Kev who sent me this. It’s from the Racing Post Twitter page.
 
Clerk of the course Simon Claisse: "I don't envisage the ground drying out considerably in time for Tuesday – we may shed the heavy in places depending on how much we get through the forecast showers, but I wouldn't see it reversing to good to soft."
 
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