Cheltenham Festival Betting 2010 / Cheltenham Free Bets

The Wednesday of Cheltenham was cancelled last year due to heavy winds of up to 50mph Paddy Power has opened a book on how much wind will be recorded at this years Cheltenham Festival. THe results will be confirmed by the British Weather Services.

Which day of the Cheltenham Festival will be the windiest (strongest gust)

2/1 Tuesday
11/8 Wednesday
3/1 Thursday
9/2 Friday

What will be the highest recorded wind gust during the 4 days of the Festival

6/1 Below 30 mph
4/1 30-35mph
11/4 36-40mph
5/2 41-45mph
9/4 +46mph

What will be the highest recorded wind gust on the first day of the Festival (Tues 10th Mar)

8/1 Below 30 mph
10/3 30-35mph
5/2 36-40mph
9/4 41-45mph
3/1 +46mph

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This afternoon’s meeting at the Cheltenham Festival has been abandoned due to high winds after a structure at the racecourse blew down this morning.
Officials made the announcement after another morning of intense gusts at Prestbury Park. All six races due to take place this afternoon – including feature race the Queen Mother Chase – will instead be staged on Thursday and Friday.

“We had a forecast last night indicating that wind speeds would gust over 50mph, up to and including 3pm this afternoon. We had a look this morning and that has sadly been reinforced,” Cheltenham’s managing director, Edward Gillespie, said.

“Many of the temporary facilities would not be safe at that level. The reason we are not racing today is for the safety of the customer,” Gillespie told Channel 4 Racing.

Cheltenham issued an official statement saying: “We have a weather forecast for today that predicts extremely strong winds over the next six or seven hours with a high degree of certainty. On that basis we have made the decision to abandon racing for today.

“The forecast for Thursday and Friday is much calmer and the races abandoned today will be rescheduled to be run on Thursday and Friday on extended cards, with a first race time of 12:30pm. The revised order of running will be issued in due course.”

Irish trainer Dessie Hughes, who had three entries on Wednesday including Schindlers Hunt in the Queen Mother Chase, said: “I’m very surprised – at the moment you’d race. We can’t do very much at this stage and we will have to wait until tomorrow.”

The racecourse was also hit in the build-up to the meeting on Monday by storms of up to 48mph. A hospitality tent was flattened by the high winds and the starter’s rostrum was blown over, damaging fencing. The situation grew untenable during Wednesday morning, however, and the tented village at the track had to be evacuated.

Gillespie said: “The rest of the crowd are close to the [worst-hit] areas so it’s not a case of just one area being out. Equally, it’s a west wind, which would take debris on to the track. We’ve had one structure blown down this morning, just before 7am. We cannot guarantee the safety of the customers but the good news is we can now stage all the races over the next two days.

“Tomorrow we will use the Old Course and on Friday [the races] will all be run on the New Course. We will be meeting at 4pm to assess the situation again.”

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