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CHELTENHAM - Jump (Updated:19/01/2013 at 12:02:53)
Going Soft (not frozen under the covers) Weather Remaining cold with occasional snow through to mid week, milder towards the week-end. Other Currently unraceable due to snow. The 2m 5f steeple chases and the 2m 41/2f hurdle may run be run on the round course depending on course conditions. |
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No chance.No racing in the south until 28th Jan.at the earliest.
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may well be on.
no more significant snow forecast assuming it doesn't thaw and turn the course waterlogged and they can actually move the covers under the weight of the snow I'd be optimistic |
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same as
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milder towards end of week only thing to thwart them depends on how much snow there is on top of the covers and if they can physicaly take them off. big day for chelt with sprinter sacre running i would be cautiously optomistic they will race.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2S889SPU8g
latest update here  |
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can,t get it turnip why what are your thoughts any chance to be on ?
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CoC appears to think it's 50/50,more snow is due tomoz and tuesday and it really depends on how much.
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good video turnip - thanks for the link.
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no problem dibble
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CheltenhamRacecourse @CheltenhamRaces
Course remains raceable under the covers, but need a thaw to shift the snow on top of the covers. Will update when more news |
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Entries, absolutely mouth watering!
Please let this go ahead. |
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Anybody got any news on the current situation please ?
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Ive bet that its on.............expecting 7/8 degrees Sat..............cold up until then....no more snow after to-day 7 im hopeing that some of its rain............
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& not 7
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Cheltenham's fate rests on overnight snowfall
BY TOM KERR 9:26AM 22 JAN 2013 THE fate of Cheltenham's massive Saturday meeting should be far clearer as dawn rises on Wednesday morning and the quantity of overnight snowfall becomes apparent. Should snowfall come in at the lower end of the forecast 1cm-2cm then the meeting would have a reasonable chance of going ahead, especially after a thaw on Monday removed some of the snow cover already coating the racecourse's frost covers. Clerk of the course at Cheltenham, Simon Claisse, said on Tuesday morning: "We had a little bit of a thaw yesterday and quite a bit of the snow on the covers has diminished. Another cold night [last night] though and it's currently dry but snow forecast for tonight. "We're forecast 1cm-2cm of snow which will leave us in the balance for the weekend. "I am no more optimistic than I was yesterday, I've been saying since Sunday that it all depends on what we get tonight. "Two centimetres on 300 covers at 400 square metres each, 120,000 square metres, is a mass of material, whereas 1cm is half of that volume, so we have to hope we either get nothing or at the lower end of the forecast." Should racing go ahead a legion of star names could be in action at Cheltenham, including Sprinter Sacre, Bobs Worth, Oscar Whisky, Tidal Bay and The New One. However, if Wednesday dawns with much snow added to that already lying on the course the forecast gives little chance of it clearing in time for Saturday. Claisse added: "The forecast does not give much hope of a thaw. Temperatures are [due to be] -2C and -3C overnight, particularly cold on Wednesday morning at -6C, and daytimes are 1.5C or 2C. "We had a little thaw yesterday and may get a little today, but the crucial thing is how much snow we get tonight." Wednesday's fixture at Limerick is subject to an 8am inspection, while Ayr's clerk of the course Emma Marley will check the track at 7.30am. Exeter, who also race on Wednesday, plan to inspect at 1pm today (Tuesday). |