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Leopardstown will need to pass a Friday afternoon inspection with day one of the Dublin Racing Festival on Saturday back in the balance.

Major efforts at the course earlier in the week saw large areas of standing water cleared away, with conditions reportedly drying back to 'yielding to soft' on the chase course by Thursday afternoon.

However, torrential overnight rain in the area has put officials on red alert all over again, with a 14:00 inspection now called. Parts of the hurdles track were considered to be unfit for racing on Friday morning in light of the further 22mm of rainfall.

A statement on the IHRB social media channels confirmed the inspection plans: "Possibility of a further 10-20mm (approx) into tomorrow. There will be an inspection at 2.30pm today (Friday)."
 
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Sold out tomorrow aswell.

I can’t see hurdles running tomorrow, they’ll try and protect it for Sunday and move some of the grade 1’s hurdles from sat to sun

But…. surely they won have a Saturday card with just 3 chases? And I can’t see them moving Sundays chases to Saturday.

Think it’s more possible they cancel tomorrow, save the track and have a 8 grade 1 card on Sunday. Aware they have fresh ground for sat and sun, but thinking about run off, enterances and exits etc…

or… Saturdays card is move to Monday?

A lot of ifs and but, either way, I’ll be on the gunniess so it all good
 
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Barry stuck to his word and chucked Marine in then!

No Ballyburn in the Champion Hurdle has ended that NRNB suggestion 😂
 
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The problem with inspecting this afternoon is staring them right in the face. While it's mostly sunny now, we are expecting a good old lashing this evening. At this moment in time, I'd hazard a guess they'll move the cards to Sunday/Monday and that would force the cancellation of Monday's Punchestown meeting, to a later date. What do others reckon?
 
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Hearing similar myself Irish, in that the ground right now isn't the main concern, its what's coming tonight that could be the problem as they'll be no time tomorrow to get the track cleared.
Just gotta hope tonights rain misses the course, or at least the bulk of whats due at least 🤞
 
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Hearing similar myself Irish, in that the ground right now isn't the main concern, its what's coming tonight that could be the problem as they'll be no time tomorrow to get the track cleared.
Just gotta hope tonights rain misses the course, or at least the bulk of whats due at least 🤞
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Yeah I'm in kildare, not too far from leopardstown, and there was more flooding yesterday evening. Currently sunny and no rain though which is something at least.
 
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Irish Rugby said:
The problem with inspecting this afternoon is staring them right in the face. While it's mostly sunny now, we are expecting a good old lashing this evening. At this moment in time, I'd hazard a guess they'll move the cards to Sunday/Monday and that would force the cancellation of Monday's Punchestown meeting, to a later date. What do others reckon?
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If it’s possible to do Sunday and Monday, that to me makes perfect sense, especially if it means we might get a bit better ground Monday than tomorrow.
Move Punch to another day next week ?
 
….Chris Gordon on a few of his;

Electric Mason will be going straight to the Pertemps and Andashan has been progressive this season and will head for the Martin Pipe.

“He was third first time out at Newbury before finishing second to the smart Dan Skelton horse at Haydock the day we had three winners and he was the one who came second. He then went and won nicely last time back at Newbury.”

He went on: “We also have David’s Well who is in really good order and after he won at Cheltenham, we thought we’d put him away and go straight to the Grand Annual. He’s a really nice horse and the pace of the race will suit him.

“Harry Cobden said he would have won more comfortably if they had gone a better gallop last time and he’s exciting to be going to the Festival with.”

Grade Two-winning novice hurdler Diamond Hunter looks an unlikely Cheltenham contender as he continues to be plagued by the setback that kept him out of Aintree’s Formby Novices’ Hurdle on Boxing Day and a trip to Haydock for the Rossington Main earlier this month.
 
Thats awesome news, just need tonight rain to either not be as heavy as expected, or that a chunk of it misses the course.
 
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Well sky and pads gone NRNB on all races today it appears and the usual carving up of the prices has commenced 🤔
 
RTE now reporting here that moving Saturday's card to Monday is the contingency. Reckon this will be the case unless the course is lucky tonight to avoid the expected rain.
 
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RTE now reporting here that moving Saturday's card to Monday is the contingency. Reckon this will be the case unless the course is lucky tonight to avoid the expected rain.
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Pissing down in Dublin right now, according to my mate.

The Betfair market has moved to odds against for them to race tomorrow.
 
feel for lads and lasses that have gone over for the weekend though.
i'd imagine a lot fly back before monday afternoon
hopefully it's on.
 
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Eggs said:
Leopardstown will need to pass a Friday afternoon inspection with day one of the Dublin Racing Festival on Saturday back in the balance.

Major efforts at the course earlier in the week saw large areas of standing water cleared away, with conditions reportedly drying back to 'yielding to soft' on the chase course by Thursday afternoon.

However, torrential overnight rain in the area has put officials on red alert all over again, with a 14:00 inspection now called. Parts of the hurdles track were considered to be unfit for racing on Friday morning in light of the further 22mm of rainfall.

A statement on the IHRB social media channels confirmed the inspection plans: "Possibility of a further 10-20mm (approx) into tomorrow. There will be an inspection at
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Quevega said:
feel for lads and lasses that have gone over for the weekend though.
i'd imagine a lot fly back before monday afternoon
hopefully it's on.
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Cheers Q. Flying in, all fields are flooded and been pissing down for a few hours. Looks like I won't be back to work until Wednesday now.
 
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