The coronavirus has already robbed us of the Premiership, the Olympics and Wimbeldon among other events and with a date set for Saturday April 4th, the nation's favourite horse race has obviously fallen to the same fate.
But alas, fear not fans of the gala day flutter because into the void has stepped a CGI based virtual version that will use a mathematical algorithm to predict the winner.
The televised event should see a big return for NHS Charities Together, which will rake in all bookmakers’ profits on the race.
Steve Rogers, head of virtual sports at Inspired, the company behind the simulation said: “Information about the horses is fed into the software which helps determine the probability of their potential finishing positions based