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Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase
2025
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2024
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2023
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2022
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2021
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2020-2011
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2013
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2012
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2011
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2005
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2004
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2001
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2000-1991
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1997
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1994
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1993
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1991
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1990
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1989
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1988
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1987
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The Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase is a Premier Handicap National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Wetherby over a distance of about 3 miles (3 miles and 45 yards or 4,869 metres), and during its running there are nineteen fences to be jumped. It is a handicap race, and it is scheduled to take place each year on Boxing Day.

The event is named in honour of Rowland Meyrick, who was appointed Clerk of the course at Wetherby in 1920. At this time Meyrick was also a member of the Wetherby Race Company, an organisation which was formed to purchase the lease of the racecourse. The Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase held Grade 3 status from 2005, though it arguably reached its peak in the 1980s when Forgive 'n Forget and The Thinker both won it in the same season they would win the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The race was re-classified as a Premier Handicap from the 2022 running when Grade 3 status was renamed by the British Horseracing Authority. [1]

Winners

Year
Winner
Age
Weight
Jockey
Trainer
1957Symaethis Nephew710-00Jumbo WilkinsonBobby Renton
1958Dondrosa610-09Tommy KellettF Taylor
1959Pendle Lady910-06Maurice TowersAlf Watson
1960Merryman II912-06Gerry ScottNeville Crump
1961Abandoned due to frost
1962Abandoned due to frost
1963Abandoned due to frost
1964Abandoned due to frost
1965Abandoned due to frost
1966Tudor Fort610-04Pat BuckleyNeville Crump
1967Abandoned because of foot and mouth epidemic
1968Chancer609-13Paddy VaughanCharlie Hall
1969Chesapeake Bay610–13Pat BuckleyNeville Crump
1970Excess810-09 Stan Mellor Harry Thomson Jones
1971Great Noise709-07David TaylorCharlie Hall
1972Jomon611-06 Tommy Stack Harry Thomson Jones
1973Tartan Ace610-05 Tommy Stack Arthur Stephenson
1974Glen Owen710-02Pat BuckleyNeville Crump
1975The Gent710-09 Tommy Stack Arthur Stephenson
1976Irish Tony810-09Dennis AtkinsNeville Crump
1977Set Point911-05David Munro Lady Herries
1978Rambling Artist810–11David GouldingA Gillam
1979 Ballet Lord 811-10 Colin Hawkins Neville Crump
1980 Sunset Cristo 610–11 Chris Grant Ray Hawkey
no race 1981 [a]
1982 Richdee 610-06 Colin Hawkins Neville Crump
1983 Phil the Fluter 810-00 Shaun Keightley H. Wharton
1984 Forgive 'n Forget 711-07 Mark Dwyer Jimmy FitzGerald
1985 Fortina's Express 811-01R. Hawkins Arthur Stephenson
1986 The Thinker 811-06 Richard Dunwoody Arthur Stephenson
1987 Yahoo 710-04 Tom Morgan John Edwards
1988 Whats What 910-01 Peter Niven Brian Bousfield
1989 Durham Edition 1110-06 Alan Merrigan Arthur Stephenson
1990 Bluff Knoll 710-00Geoff HarkerBobby Brewis
1991 Stay on Tracks 910-00 Chris Grant Arthur Stephenson
1992Abandoned due to frost
1993 General Pershing 710–13 Neale Doughty Gordon W. Richards
1994 Cogent 1010-08 Chris Bonner [b] Jeremy Glover
1995Abandoned due to frost
1996Abandoned due to frost
1997 Strath Royal 1110-10 Martin Brennan Owen Brennan
1998 Random Harvest 909-11 Alan Dempsey Mary Reveley
1999Abandoned due to frost
2000Abandoned due to frost
2001 Behrajan 611-10 Mark Bradburne Henry Daly
no race 2002 [c]
2003 Gunner Welburn 1110-00 Richard McGrath Andrew Balding
2004 Truckers Tavern 911-02 Keith Mercer Ferdy Murphy
2005 Therealbandit 809-10 Andrew Glassonbury Martin Pipe
2006 Leading Man 610-00 Graham Lee Ferdy Murphy
2007 Lothian Falcon 810-07 Robert Walford Peter Maddison
2008 Nozic 710-08 Harry Skelton Paul Nicholls
no race 2009–10 [d]
2011 According to Pete 1009-11 Harry Haynes Malcolm Jefferson
2012Cape Tribulation811-10Jack Doyle Malcolm Jefferson
2013 Cloudy Too 711-00 Jonathan England Sue Smith
2014 Dolatulo 711-04 Dougie Costello Warren Greatrex
no race 2015 [e]
2016 Definitly Red 711-00 Henry Brooke Brian Ellison
2017 Get On The Yager 710-07 Henry Brooke Dan Skelton
2018Lake View Lad811-10Henry BrookeNick Alexander
2019Top Ville Ben711-11Thomas DowsonPhilip Kirby
2020Canelo711-06Tom Bellamy Alan King
2021Good Boy Bobby811-08 Sam Twiston-Davies Nigel Twiston-Davies
2022Into Overdrive710-11Jamie HamiltonMark Walford
2023Fontaine Collonges810-03Shane Quinlan Venetia Williams
2024Some Scope609-09Charlie MaggsRichard Hobson
2025Konfusion711-02Callum BewleyJoel Parkinson & Sue Smith
  1. The 1981 running was abandoned due to snow and frost
  2. amateur jockey
  3. The race was cancelled in 2002 due to waterlogging
  4. The race was abandoned in 2009 because of snow and in 2010 because of frost
  5. The race was abandoned in 2015 because of waterlogging

See also

References

  1. "Jump Pattern Committee update 22/23 season". British Horseracing Authority. Retrieved 12 August 2022.