Rain forecast for Punchestown

Conditions at Punchestown could to be on the slow side of good for the start of the five-day Festival on Tuesday – if the forecast rain arrives.

Richie Galway, racing director at Punchestown, said: “We had two millimetres of rain at 8am yesterday so we are still calling the ground good on the chase and hurdle courses and still good to firm in places on the cross country course.