It's out with the Old and in with the New as Cheltenham prepares for light rain

Racing switches to Cheltenham's New course for the third day of the festival, which is expected to be preceded by rain.

Clerk of the course Simon Claisse posted conditions as soft, good to soft in places, on the inside track, which will be used again for Friday's Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup, whose runners will get to race on ground not used for 12 months.

Claisse said: "We have some rain forecast and could get two to three millimetres before we start racing on Thursday.

"The ground could therefore revert to soft, but even if it does I think it should be a better soft than we've had on the Old course this week, although, of course, much depends on whether the rain comes all at once or is spread out over a few hours."

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