Cheltz Fest 2021 Behind Closed Doors ?

[Hurricane fly]

They are hoping to vaccinate up to 2m a week between both jabs.

i think that’s pretty ambitious so scaling down to 1.5m a week, and going off 2 weeks for it to be affective(ambitious side of estimates) that would be 10.5m people vaccinated with immunity pre Festival so 1/6th of the country.

Not sure that will be enough for crowds of any decent size to be allowed in

[charlie]

There’s another 100 million doses of a vaccine available available and raceweek is still 11 weeks away, we should be in a much better place than we were over Christmas...

Zero chance we'll be anywhere close to a decent place in March IMO. They promised millions of vaccines by xmas, it was just over 400,000. They said we'd avoid 3 lockdowns, we're nearing a 4th with a new 5th tier. People should be preparing and accepting a Cheltenham with nobody there. False hope based on nothing does no good to anyone.

[Ballybeen]

Champions league and Europa league will be back before Cheltenham, February I think, so if football teams are allowed to travel around Europe then, that should be our indicator for allowing Irish horses to travel across.

[Kautostar]

There’s another 100 million doses of a vaccine available available and raceweek is still 11 weeks away, we should be in a much better place than we were over Christmas...

I hope so but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that there’s a travel ban in place. Who knows how the vaccine will react to the different strains and there could be more strains to come....we simply don’t know

[Penzance]

And let us know if you get any side effects too

[dannycraigpirates]

If I end up with a 7 fingered hand and a 3rd ear I’ll let you know !

And let us know if you get any side effects too

[Penzance]

Congrats. You must be the first one on here to have it

If I end up with a 7 fingered hand and a 3rd ear I’ll let you know !

[charlie]

I think there is very little chance of spectators being able to go. It’ll just come a bit too early. I would think that Boris is hoping to get things opened up for Easter. I’ve resigned myself to sitting at home watching on the TV with an outside chance of watching in the pub. Getting my vaccine tomorrow on another note

Congrats. You must be the first one on here to have it

[Penzance]

I think there is very little chance of spectators being able to go. It’ll just come a bit too early. I would think that Boris is hoping to get things opened up for Easter. I’ve resigned myself to sitting at home watching on the TV with an outside chance of watching in the pub. Getting my vaccine tomorrow on another note

[Bigfish]

Dusart , Boothill, Bravemansgame, Allart, Blue Shan, Goshen, Allmankind, Paisley Park, Altior , The big Breakaway, Nassalam, Monmiral , Roksana , Silver Streak, Champ, Frodon, Imperial Aura Next Destination, Cyrname, Waiting Patiently , Politologue , Shantou Flyer and more... permed in multis. The prices will crash from now I reckon.

[Istabraq]

.....it happened at Christmas

There’s another 100 million doses of a vaccine available available and raceweek is still 11 weeks away, we should be in a much better place than we were over Christmas...

[Bigfish]

Ive been doing this for weeks now.

[Joleg]

.....it happened at Christmas

With this in mind, going forward do we think it sensible hoovering up prices on English based horses ? Epatante, Shishken, Paisley, Thyme Hill etc. Inevitably if the worse was to happen and the Irish were banned from travelling you may be on some decent doubles, trebles etc. The bookies would have to honour the prices.

Sorta want to do a couple of multis with English based horses only, just in case

[Kautostar]

Absolutely no way in my mind will overseas horses be banned from travelling over, just won’t happen...

.....it happened at Christmas

[Istabraq]

I am sure provisions will be made to allow this. It may involve some having to travel sooner rather than later, not too sure. But yeh I agree, no Irish horses would suck

Absolutely no way in my mind will overseas horses be banned from travelling over, just won’t happen...