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Weather Watch 2021

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The going at Cheltenham on Wednesday will be good to soft all over on all courses after the track continued to dry out overnight.

The official going was soft, good to soft in places at the start of the meeting but was changed to good to soft, soft in places after the Close Brothers Mares' Hurdle on day one.

After walking the course on Wednesday, clerk of the course Simon Claisse said: "We changed it to good to soft, soft in places after race five yesterday and we've had a drying 12 hours since then. I've had a good walk around this morning and have taken the soft places out after that."

Warm and breezy weather on Tuesday had helped to dry the ground, but Claisse did not expect such strong drying conditions for day two.

"It's forecast to be a dry day but not as warm today," he said. "We got up to 17C yesterday and a few of us came away feeling a touch sunburned. It's not as breezy either today. We might even end up with a bit of good in the description at some point."
 
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Official going this morning Good to Soft, not aware that it rained overnight, dry now so draw your own conclusions
 
Obviously had some recent rain as quite wet although official going at 6.18 this morning is Good to Soft, Good in places
 
Wet here at the moment and been raining lightly for about an hour
 
Such a amazing site

last time I remember good ground was when then miles of Thistlecrack, Vautour won. With the better ground the racing just felt more true to form. Plus, nice weather will make most things appear better


weather has been spot on this week, a shame we couldn’t be there

next year going forecast - soft to heavy
 
if theres no more rain I wonder if the ground will firm up to GOOD by gold cup time
 
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