Frozen track at Cheltenham Racecourse - ground inspection this morning
CHELTENHAM Festival chiefs will inspect the course this morning to see whether racing can go ahead, after sections of the track froze overnight.
The inspection will take place at 10.30am.
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Cheltenham Racecourse yesterday - photo by Dan Mullan/Pinnacle
However, racecourse bosses say 95 per cent of the course is fine and expect the first day of the event to run as planned.
They tweeted: "Wind chill down to -12 last night. 95% of track fine. Inspection 10.30am. Remain v confident that racing will go ahead."
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Temperatures in Cheltenham plummeted below zero overnight and there have been flurries of snow this morning.
Comments
by thomas1996
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 8:23AM
“8.20am - blizzard conditions here at the racecourse - eeek!”