Cheltenham officials have called an 8am precautionary inspection ahead of tomorrow's card due to the threat of severe frost. Temperatures could drop as low as minus four overnight and clerk of the course Simon Claisse is particularly concerned about the prospect of frost on the cross-country course.
"We are going to have a look at 8am as temperatures at dawn could be as low as minus four, rising to three or four degrees by the start of racing," said Claisse.
"That wouldn't cause us a concern for the new course where the chases and hurdles will be held as it's either covered or is fresh ground, but we have only covered limited parts of the cross country track.
"That would be our main concern provided the weather we have overnight is no worse than forecast.
"We would have been raceable on all courses today and yesterday and we actually had a minus five on Wednesday morning but we were OK.
"This is going to be our third consecutive night of frost though and it is a severe one."