Cheltenham Festival will be coldest ever but racing will go ahead

• Plastic covers protect course from -11C temperatures • Clerk of course Simon Claisse says soft going is likely Shivering amid snow flurries and temperatures of -11C, Cheltenham Festival officials have moved to reassure punters that Tuesday's eagerly awaited opening day is not at risk from frost despite recording the coldest March since records began at the Gloucestershire course. The Festival is normally filed alongside crocuses and snowdrops as one of the first harbingers of sprin...