Watering at Cheltenham

The perennial wisdom is that Irish horses want soft/heavy, and ours want quicker.
If we wanted to create home advantage (as they do in many other sports) then keep the hose coiled up.

Where have you read that they are watering?

BHA website gives Cheltenham watering history.

Pathetic. Wokery and nothing else. The perception is that good ground means races run at a faster pace and hence more or more serious falls. Apart from being nonsense it is equivalent to the racecourse authorities giving a 5 length start to some of the runners.

They haven’t watered overnight, but did the previous two days (from the BHA site):

WATERING HISTORY:

On Wed, 11 Mar 6:19am the watering status was No Watering - No watering overnight

On Tue, 10 Mar 6:43am the watering status was Watered - 3-5mm selectively applied yesterday.

On Mon, 09 Mar 6:39am the watering status was Watering (In Progress) - Selective watering today to maintain, and improve Good areas (4-5mm)

That is what I read, too.

How he can call it good to soft today, when it was good ground yesterday, is a mystery.

He can call it what he wants but the ground is Good and likely to get quicker

Yet another fictitious conspiracy thread. Full of lies and warped logic.

Agree with irons, by he way. The times are quick so prove it.

From BHA as shown here by Wolf (thanks): "Monday Selective watering today to maintain, and improve Good areas" .

The BHA has introduced a new going description I.e. "Gooder".

Mar 11, 2026 -- 12:41PM, jimmythewon wrote:

From BHA as shown here by Wolf (thanks): "Monday Selective watering today to maintain, and improve Good areas" .The BHA has introduced a new going description I.e. "Gooder".

Ha, yes! Goody Four Hooves even?