Sat Cheltenham or Uttox...

temperature in cheltenham -4at 7.30 today clear sunny day clerk confident warmer air coming no sign of it yet

Thanks mate...

They keep saying it is going to get warmer but apart from West Wales and Scotland it is getting colder! I am 25 miles from Wincanton and nearer the coast but it was -8C here this morning! Coldest for a very long time.

I'm starting to get worried now Sageform..Heading your way in April and looking forward to a good weeks racing , taking in one of my fav tracks N.A...

no frost in surrey this morning but certainly this cold spell is becoming very stubborn to move on

I'm two or three miles west of Taunton, and the ground is like iron. I've got some heavily mulched carrots, and I just went out with a trowel and a hammer to pick a couple to have with my dinner. No chance. Couldn't even chip the soil. It seems as though the further south-west you go, the deeper the freeze has become. Cheltenham could be touch and go with an 11.40 start.

On the plus side, I've managed to chop up some elm logs that looked impossible to split. They simply fell apart thanks to the moisture being so frozen.

workrider, as others have said, for some reason recently the forecasters keep saying it is going to get warmer but it hasn't, there's been a hard frost here every day lately and I'm in the South West rainbelt where it is usually first to warm up but no sign of that yet. Fingers crossed for you but woulda left booking a flight as late as possible.

I am off to Sedgefield on Sunday(1st time), no issues hopefully.

Dg

If you like fish and chips then the chippy on course is very good

I was in Uttoxeter this afternoon and it was 6 degrees. Walked in a field next to the course, and that was frozen.

Thanks for the input lads please keep me up to date..

Near Birmingham here, much warmer this evening..ground will be thawed by tomorrow imo.

Hopefully Chelt...

Uttoxer once enough for me...full of wronguns.

GL with it being all on, guess everyone hopes it is

great little track DG - You wont be disappointed imo

Freezing fog today in Somerset but a few degrees warmer. Wincanton on 2nd Feb and Taunton on 7th might be OK!

They were somewhat previous cancelling Warwick yesterday for today.
The frost has gone here 3 miles from course.

Thanks lads , we are very lucky here weather wise this week , no frost . Heading to Fairyhouse soon and Gowran tomorrow so all's well with the World...

Are you urban or rural, saxon? The difference a bit of tarmac and buildings can make to grass temperatures is startling.

mile from Cheltenham racecourse here.

Warmer today but warm enough? Not sure. Suspect we need temperatures as predicted (in places) over next couple of days to have a realistic chance.

screaming
I’m on the extreme border of urban! The grass in the fields looking east are perfectly green & the thermometer on my garden shed reads 7 Celsius. Admittedly I have not ventured into the fields to test the texture.  I appreciate your point is totally valid!
All the best.

Workrider enjoy gowran tomorrow I’m sure as ever there will be a huge crowd and a great atmosphere,hopefully they have removed that foxes sh.t by the last fence

It's all green here in Somerset today, saxon, but if you walk in the fields it's just a thin layer of mud beneath the grass, and several inches of frozen ground beneath that.

Then again, the West Country is not the West Midlands, so you may well have a point!

Any improvements lads ?

I’ve been looking for any info but no luck.

Need to cancel hotel by 3pm today or no refund.

l ive in gloucester 8 miles from track have large lawn which to day in finally unfrozen temperature is +7 at the moment so hopefully conditions are similar at chelt so they can put the covers down later today

Neither of them showing any problems on recent Twitter posts.

It would be ironic if they ended up abandoning the fixture because of the early start

12pm Inspection Friday and request to move to Sunday 29th if can’t race Saturday.

Lets hope it is on Saturday or Sunday. Ridiculous if they don't allow them to drop back a day with the improving forecast.

temp at 7.00 am in gloucester +3 nine am rose to +5 no frost

Thanks Thinker .

passed inspection frost covers to go down

7.30 Inspection tomorrow morning. Looks promising but cancelling Sunday option maybe a mistake?

Jon Pullin, Clerk of the Course said on Friday: “Temperatures remained positive overnight, and the ground has continued to thaw with the racing line now free from frost. The Going is currently Soft, Good to Soft in places on the New Course and Good to Soft, Soft in places on the Cross Country Course.

"Frost covers will be deployed today on the New Course in order to protect the ground from tonight’s forecast where temperatures could drop to -2c, therefore there will be a further Precautionary Inspection at 7:30am tomorrow (Saturday January 28).

"Due to significant improvements on course, the contingency plans to restage the raceday on Sunday are no longer in place".

Contingency plans for Sunday would cost a fortune - employing staff for one  thing.

hi workrider - hope you had a safe trip over and a successful day.

I had 3 winners, Il Ridotto (very good ride from Cobden and I don't say that often...), Ahoy Senor (great to see the Scottish horse show what he can do although place probably best in GC unless Galopin shows he doesn't get 3miles at DRF in which case it's completely open) and Rock My Way (which stuck on well and paid huge compliment to Weveallbeencaught - really hope he goes to DRF as I'll get the big notes out! - and also It's For Me). In the other races, QMCC looks wide open after today, I just haven't got on the Edwardstone train, Comfort Zone was a massive plus for Lossiemouth and I don't buy this Scriptwriter would have won if it had came later, and Delta Work will be strong favourite for XC.

Now let's see what Willie does next weekend!!

Hi Gordon , just home went to Uttox and had a dire day , backed second and third winners and ended up losing £700 don't ask how. I was on the plane with Willie for the 3nd time in 2 months I'm sure he must think we are a jinx. Had word for one of Nicholls up at Donny finished 2nd then had £200 on Atonomus Cloud @ 3/1  who managed to get beaten by a stable mate having lead the whole way till near the line..Will try and get it back tomorrow at Naas . Looking forward to meeting you next week take care ..