The Aintree going

[Diamond Geezer]

More questions than answers but what are the chances of Aintree actually being off ? :blink:

Looking at the long range forecast for Liverpool there seems to be a suggestion temperatures will be -3 / -5 each night right up to that weekend. Will they have to do a mass cover up like Cheltenham , would have thought the GN course would be a nightmare to cover although the park course would be a bit easier.

Has a GN meeting ever been threatened by cold weather before in April ?

 

[EC1]

More questions than answers but what are the chances of Aintree actually being off ? :blink:

Looking at the long range forecast for Liverpool there seems to be a suggestion temperatures will be -3 / -5 each night right up to that weekend. Will they have to do a mass cover up like Cheltenham , would have thought the GN course would be a nightmare to cover although the park course would be a bit easier.

Has a GN meeting ever been threatened by cold weather before in April ?

how confident can they be about those temperatures though?..it may well be the case ..but its a long way ahead as far weather predicting is concerned imo

 

[trudij]

I questioned this on one of the other threads - I'll go find what the answer was...

here we go - was in the Sprinter Sacre thread - and it was Drone who replied...

Drone
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Join Date: Nov 2009


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Originally Posted by trudij
What's the weather doing up there anyway - is there any chance it will be off??!

Cold, slowly becoming less cold but most significantly staying predominantly dry over the next 10 days or so, say I with foolhardy confidence

No chance then that the meeting will be off and I'd forecast it to be run on rather sparse sickly turf and dead but in the circumstances goodish going

Judging by the posts on this thread and elsewhere one would be forgiven for believing that SS is a definite for the Melling. Unless I've missed some updates from Henderson et al isn't it still something around evens each of two Aintree or Punchestown and 66/1 both?

 

[edgt]

Not by cold weather,more by heavy rain.
1902 GN was run in a snowstorm with snow on the ground. The horses had butter rubbed to their hooves to stop snow balling in their feet. Grudon won.
A great ad for Kerrygold!

 

[EC1]

Not by cold weather,more by heavy rain.
1902 GN was run in a snowstorm with snow on the ground. The horses had butter rubbed to their hooves to stop snow balling in their feet. Grudon won.
A great ad for Kerrygold!

crikey - how old are you?

 

[Diamond Geezer]

Ground conditions at Aintree, which stages the John Smith's Grand National on Saturday, have firmed up slightly with clerk of the course Andrew Tulloch planning to water as necessary with the forecast set to be settled and dry.

After starting the irrigation process on Sunday Tulloch changed the going to good, good to soft in places on the Mildmay and hurdles courses and to good to soft, good in places on the National course.

He said: "It's not warm but it's that easterly breeze that is quite cold and we only had that snow around ten days ago so we are watering. All three courses will be watered.

"Going forward the forecast is quite settled as well, albeit remaining on the cold side. We are getting down to freezing overnight with some grass frosts then looking forward it's going to gradually warm up but only to 7C, 8C, 9C during the day.

"I think we'll need to water again, we'll just keep an eye on it and see what we do later on in the week really."