Cheltenham is in "good nick" ahead of the four-day National Hunt Festival which swings into action on Tuesday.
Despite the cold and wet winter officials deemed it necessary to water the entire course to ensure the perfect underfoot conditions for the opening day of the Festival. Watering ceased on Thursday but clerk of the course Simon Claisse has not ruled out turning the taps back on over the coming days.
As it stands the going is good to soft, good in places on both Old and New Courses and good, good to soft in places on the cross-country course with a dry week forecast.
"The course is in good nick. The outlook remains pretty well dry now until Wednesday when we might get the odd shower amounting to one millimetre and some light but steadier rain on Thursday and Friday," Claisse said.
"We could get between five and seven millimetres over those two days and any rain that comes after racing on Friday is not going to help us obviously.
"It might just be a watching brief on the New course.
"We stopped watering on Thursday. We haven't completely ruled out putting a little extra irrigation on the New course yet. We haven't done that today. We will have a look at the forecast tomorrow.
"The options are we go tomorrow, we leave it and then do it overnight but that's our least favoured option.
"But it just may be the way course conditions are and the forecast is that we end up having to do that."