Leopardstown CEO reassures Christmas festival fans ‘racing will go ahead’ at south Dublin course
However, temperatures are not forecast to get anywhere as cold as they have been.
The difficulty in preventing the ground from speeding up was underlined last Christmas when a couple of inches of rain fell in a Christmas Day downpour yet watering had to take place on day two of the festival. “We would be watering anyway as part of our programme that we’ve been doing over the last six months or so on both the tracks.
A 9.0 inspection on Friday morning underlines doubts surrounding whether or not the following day’s Fairyhouse programme will go ahead. Thurles was frozen in places and unfit to race on Thursday but there is currently no inspection planned there.
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