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Cheltenham Festival ground?

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A few long range forecasters are predicting another 4/6 weeks of Atlantic battering

Surely we are going to have a soft/heavy ground festival and a few shock results
 
Truncheon said:
A few long range forecasters are predicting another 4/6 weeks of Atlantic battering

Surely we are going to have a soft/heavy ground festival and a few shock results
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Yeah it could be soft or heavy the way the weathers been.

I think it makes things more interesting personally.
 
Weather seems no worse than usual on the forecast and actually sunny Cheltenham week, and a few days of sunshine before as well
 
Long range forecast looks fine as of now. Any rain just means less watering. I'd expect good to soft on day one as per usual.
 
Truncheon said:
A few long range forecasters are predicting another 4/6 weeks of Atlantic battering

Surely we are going to have a soft/heavy ground festival and a few shock results
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I’ve read this narrative on a few different occasions now but for the life of me I can’t fathom where it’s coming from. Any forecast I’m checking has a little or no chance of rain over the next 2 weeks or so.

The next two weeks are really the crucial period here. It’s currently soft all over as of yesterday after the 3 storms but that rain was so badly needed. Everyone knows how quickly the place dries so i’d be hoping with it drying out there’s actually enough rain to maintain it on the softer side of good to stop him watering. The water table must be low after such a dry winter.

This is Jon Pullin’s first festival so you can be sure he’ll be striving for the old Good/soft.


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Appears there’s a nice bit of rain to hit the course up until midnight when it eases off. There was a good amount forecast for early this morning too but from what I’m seeing Cheltenham missed most of it.


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Jon Pullin new clerk of course at Cheltenham

If we were racing today, it would be soft, good to soft in places."
 
Current conditions are Soft all round and with high a probability of rain every day between now and the 15th, with the exception of this coming weekend, it’s hard to imagine any Good in the going come the Supreme.
 
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Current conditions are Soft all round and with high a probability of rain every day between now and the 15th, with the exception of this coming weekend, it’s hard to imagine any Good in the going come the Supreme.
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I’ve looked at a few different long range forecasts and after this weekend right up to Monday 14th the chances of rain every day only seem to be about the 20% mark. The rain up to this weekend, the 5ml or so, is enough to keep it soft but 2-3 days of dry weather is enough to start bringing predominantly good/soft all around again. It drains incredibly fast.

It was interesting to hear him talk about not being afraid to water in an article written yesterday so it just shows the mindset. You have to remember the water table has to be very low after such a dry Winter.

I’d say we’ll be looking at beautiful ground, good/soft for the supreme with temperatures high enough to have a lush grass cover.


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The forecast for here today that I looked at yesterday had it down as raining pretty much all day.

As yet nothing, and it looks minimal for the rest of the day now.

Just goes to show that they struggle to forecast only 24 hours in advance with any great accuracy.
 
Fair bit of wind around too, so I reckon the rain forecast Friday and Sunday would be just what the clerk would have added by watering to maintain G/S all round.
 

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