Horseracing: Cheltenham Festival still in the balance

Officials at Cheltenham racecourse are still waiting to hear from the British Horseracing Board whether the rescheduled National Hunt Festival will be allowed to go ahead.

The meeting, which has been rearranged for April 17, 18 and 19, was thrown into further doubt on Saturday after a new case of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed by Britain's Ministry of Agriculture in Woolstone, a village five miles north west of the track.