Organisers of the Dublin Racing Festival scheduled for Saturday and Sunday remain confident that the inclement weather won't cause the Leopardstown meet to be cancelled.
A prolonged period of wet weather in the capital, including an unexpected 60mm of rain on Monday, left Leopardstown unraceable on Tuesday.
New Leopardstown CEO Mark Clayton says he is optimistic that the worst of Storm Chandra is behind them with the highly-anticipated meet at the weekend (live on RTÉ2).
Ireland remains under a Status Yellow wind warning until 11pm on Tuesday, with 12mm overnight rainfall causing the cancellation of today’s racecard at Limerick.
However Clayton says he has "complete optimism" the weekend’s action that was expected to draw in the region of 35,000 racegoers to the Foxrock venue.
"The storm is pretty much blowing through now and we’re confident given the forecast we will be racing both days, which is amazing given the volume of rain," he said.
"I joked with the team when I first met them that I had been to the track numerous times over the last year and not seen any rain, well the last 12 days we’ve seen 160mm of rain and on Monday we had 60mm of rain, it’s been torrential.
"Of course we have to remain cautious, but we have no contingencies planned as given the forecast at the moment, it gives us complete optimism we will be racing both Saturday and Sunday."
Although the wet weather has attempted to dampen the build up to this year’s Dublin Racing Festival, Clayton has been buoyed by the stellar line-up standing their ground at the confirmation stage.
There will be eight Grade One races staged over the two days, with the cream of Irish racing set to lure a bumper bank holiday crowd for what continues to be one of the highlights of the National Hunt season.
Clayton added: "Ticket sales are massive and we are close to selling out on Saturday which will then tick through to Sunday. With it being a bank holiday in Ireland on Monday, people do tend to come on the Sunday and I think we will have in excess of 34,000, maybe even 35,000 people here at the weekend.
"We had seven entries from Britain initially, which was the highest we’d ever had for the Dublin Racing Festival," he said.
"The weather has gone against us slightly in that regard, but the racing will still be fantastic and there will be a huge crowd and the weather looks to be brightening up for the weekend."
Watch the Dublin Racing Festival on Saturday and Sunday from 1pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player
