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12 Mar 19
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Just announced--inspection in the morning--worried about strong winds .
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God I hope NOT
Ladies day late Wont get my skirt on!!! And getting OUT steakes is the BUMPER  |
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Just heard this too on Radio 5
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2008 was the last time the high speed winds caused the abandonment. Had a bumper race-oacked day on the Thursday.
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The Story/Announcement was made this Morning ...
The second day of the Cheltenham Festival is now under threat, with the racecourse predicting Wednesday's racing will hinge on at least one morning inspection. Eleven years on from the cancellation of the festival's day two programme due to strong winds, the same fate could befall a card that is due to feature the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase. Should Wednesday's meeting be abandoned, the afternoon's races will be staged on Saturday. Clerk of the course Simon Claisse had on Sunday played down the threat caused by Storm Gareth. However, the expectation is now that wind speeds of around 50 miles per hour could place temporary structures in jeopardy. Should it not be possible to give a green light to racing at the point of the first inspection, Cheltenham has not ruled out the possibility of pushing back the time at which racegoers are allowed to enter the racecourse. Speaking on the Cheltenham Twitter account on Tuesday, Claisse said: "We wanted to give you an early insight into conditions for tomorrow as the forecast is looking challenging, with strong gusting winds throughout the day. "We are continually monitoring the situation and will keep racegoers informed as the conditions present themselves." |
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Cheltenham forecast shows 20 mph winds most of the day
With 40 mph between 11 and 12 Bugger  |
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Why not run the races on Thursday and Friday as they did the last time it happened ?
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Crowd limits
Theres 50k going tomorrow including ME |
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NOT just Tomorrow
SAME Forecast ALL week Tomorrow Wed 13 Mar GMT Hour Wind Avg. Gust Temp. Rain 3h Cloud 12:00 WNW 28 mph to 41 mph 8°C 0.3 mm 100 % 1011 mb 15:00 WNW 23 mph to 38 mph 8°C 0.1 mm 100 % 1013 mb 18:00 W 16 mph to 32 mph 6°C 0 mm 99 % 1014 mb Thu 14 Mar GMT Hour Wind Avg. Gust Temp. Rain 3h Cloud 12:00 WNW 23 mph to 41 mph 10°C 0.2 mm 99 % 1004 mb 15:00 WNW 21 mph to 36 mph 9°C 0 mm 100 % 1006 mb 18:00 WNW 13 mph to 29 mph 7°C 0 mm 96 % 1009 mb Fri 15 Mar GMT Hour Wind Avg. Gust Temp. Rain 3h Cloud 09:00 WSW 21 mph to 38 mph 11°C 0.1 mm 98 % 1010 mb 12:00 WSW 24 mph to 40 mph 11°C 0.4 mm 100 % 1010 mb 15:00 WSW 23 mph to 39 mph 11°C 0.6 mm 100 % 1008 mb 18:00 WSW 20 mph to 37 mph 10°C 0.6 mm 100 % 1008 mb Sat 16 Mar GMT Hour Wind Avg. Gust Temp. Rain 3h Cloud 12:00 SW 26 mph to 47 mph 9°C 3.2 mm 100 % 997 mb 15:00 SW 23 mph to 40 mph 9°C 1.5 mm 100 % 996 mb 18:00 W 15 mph to 24 mph 7°C 0.1 mm 100 % 997 mb |
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Course just said if racing not tomorrow
You we now be refunded And have to buy new tickets for Saturday Well I not paying an inflated pricing |
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So this means no over night bets then.
Don’t want money locked up until Saturday. |
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1.5 On
3.0 Off for those worried or interested |
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turnover would be huge Sat
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i will take some of the 3
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I expect they have been gagging to get it onto Saturday
unfortunately this may give them a perfect opportunity |
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It would be great
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Agreed - More manoeuvring than Mrs May
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'Agreed' - was to sweter's post ... and most definitely NOT to ... "It would be great"
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Explain
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Must be progress
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it most certainly NOT be great
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it most certainly would NOT be good
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Explain please
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nope just work it out yourself
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Dear dear . Might just be why our sport struggles to move forward with prehistoric ways of thinking.
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Obviously would be a terrible idea to move it permanently to a saturday for virtually any proper racing fan.
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Not so sure.Think if planned correct races and policed correctly would be great.
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It's already packed to the rafters and sold out so the only thing that changes is the dynamics of the crowd. More stag parties and non racing fans. Whilst you get plenty of drinkers at the Festival the vast majority love their racing. Friday is a much better day for Gold Cup publicity too with nothing else to take on. Saturday has Six nations and football to compete with for headlines and space.
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Completely unnecessary. On Friday it gets a sellout crowd of 70k and is the biggest sporting event happening.
Move to a Saturday and you'd get no increase in the crowd and the coverage would be relegated behind the football. If that's "moving forwards" I'd like to see what moving backwards is. |
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there you go SQ
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Iam not suggesting moving championshio races to a Sat.
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A few years from now our sport will be dying if not dead because of fossils who make the rules.
Take a look at golf shuffled the majors around{graet move btw}Why? |
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if tomorrow is cancelled they should move it to Thursday, Thursdays card to Friday, and so on.
the final day will be flat as a pancake if gold cup has already been run. will feel weird to do it that way. |
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do you really think they would leave the GC on Friday if the festival was moved to include Saturday?
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maybe cancel the rest of Cheltenham to save punters a further bloodbath, assuming there are any banks left.
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maybe cancel the rest of Cheltenham to save punters a further bloodbath, assuming there are any banks left.
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Yes certainly.Keeps it special.Did they move the Ascot Gold Cup?
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They will sewter,no choice............that is how it stands.......im 14 miles away.
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Lewisham that means GC on Sat no way.
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why wouldn't they have the gold cup on the sat? because of the clash with footy?! they have the derby on a sat. will only be a one-off anyway.
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