Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase| 2025 |
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| Konfusion | Marble Sands | Knappers Hill |
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| 2024 |
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| Some Scope | Kinondo Kwetu | Good Boy Bobby |
| 2023 |
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| Fontaine Collonges | Empire Steel | Only two finished |
| 2022 |
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| Into Overdrive | Sounds Russian | Fanion D'estruval |
| 2021 |
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| Good Boy Bobby | Lord Du Mesnil | Top Ville Ben |
| 2020-2011 |
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| 2020 |
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| Canelo | Snow Leopardess | Windsor Avenue |
| 2019 |
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| Top Ville Ben | Didero Vallis | Lake View Lad |
| 2018 |
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| Lake View Lad | Captain Chaos | Takingrisks |
| 2017 |
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| Get On The Yager | Wakanda | Delusionofgrandeur |
| 2016 |
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| Definitly Red | Wakanda | Blaklion |
| 2014 |
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| Dolatulo | Cape Tribulation | Corrin Wood |
| 2013 |
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| Cloudy Too | Tullamore Dew | Cape Tribulation |
| 2012 |
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| Cape Tribulation | Mr Moonshine | Ballyoliver |
| 2011 |
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| According To Pete | Helpston | Midnight Chase |
| 2010-2001 |
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| 2008 |
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| Nozic | Tidal Bay | Cloudy Lane |
| 2007 |
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| Lothian Falcon | Leading Man | Flying Enterprise |
| 2006 |
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| Leading Man | Sir Rembrandt | Truckers Tavern |
| 2005 |
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| Therealbandit | Take The Stand | My Will |
| 2004 |
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| Truckers Tavern | Malek | Cruise Leader |
| 2003 |
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| Gunner Welburn | Skippers Cleuch | Artic Jack |
| 2001 |
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| Behrajan | Heidi | Birkdale |
| 2000-1991 |
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| 1998 |
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| Random Harvest | The Last Fling | River Lossie |
| 1997 |
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| Strath Royal | Major Bell | Sparky Gayle |
| 1994 |
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| Cogent | Jodami | Only two finished |
| 1993 |
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| General Pershing | Mr Boston | Another Coral |
| 1991 |
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| Stay On Tracks | Kings Fountain | Kildimo |
| 1990-1987 |
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| 1990 |
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| Bluff Knoll | Stay On Tracks | The Thinker |
| 1989 |
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| Durham Edition | Nick The Brief | Ballyhane |
| 1988 |
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| Whats What | Bucko | Oregon Trail |
| 1987 |
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| Yahoo | The Langholm Dyer | Only two finished |
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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.
Winners
- Weights given in stones and pounds.
| Year | Winner | Age | Weight | Jockey | Trainer |
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| 1957 | Symaethis Nephew | 7 | 10-00 | Jumbo Wilkinson | Bobby Renton |
| 1958 | Dondrosa | 6 | 10-09 | Tommy Kellett | F Taylor |
| 1959 | Pendle Lady | 9 | 10-06 | Maurice Towers | Alf Watson |
| 1960 | Merryman II | 9 | 12-06 | Gerry Scott | Neville Crump |
| 1961 | Abandoned due to frost |
| 1962 | Abandoned due to frost |
| 1963 | Abandoned due to frost |
| 1964 | Abandoned due to frost |
| 1965 | Abandoned due to frost |
| 1966 | Tudor Fort | 6 | 10-04 | Pat Buckley | Neville Crump |
| 1967 | Abandoned because of foot and mouth epidemic | | |
| 1968 | Chancer | 6 | 09-13 | Paddy Vaughan | Charlie Hall |
| 1969 | Chesapeake Bay | 6 | 10–13 | Pat Buckley | Neville Crump |
| 1970 | Excess | 8 | 10-09 | Stan Mellor | Harry Thomson Jones |
| 1971 | Great Noise | 7 | 09-07 | David Taylor | Charlie Hall |
| 1972 | Jomon | 6 | 11-06 | Tommy Stack | Harry Thomson Jones |
| 1973 | Tartan Ace | 6 | 10-05 | Tommy Stack | Arthur Stephenson |
| 1974 | Glen Owen | 7 | 10-02 | Pat Buckley | Neville Crump |
| 1975 | The Gent | 7 | 10-09 | Tommy Stack | Arthur Stephenson |
| 1976 | Irish Tony | 8 | 10-09 | Dennis Atkins | Neville Crump |
| 1977 | Set Point | 9 | 11-05 | David Munro | Lady Herries |
| 1978 | Rambling Artist | 8 | 10–11 | David Goulding | A Gillam |
| 1979 | Ballet Lord | 8 | 11-10 | Colin Hawkins | Neville Crump |
| 1980 | Sunset Cristo | 6 | 10–11 | Chris Grant | Ray Hawkey |
| 1981 | no race 1981 | | | | |
| 1982 | Richdee | 6 | 10-06 | Colin Hawkins | Neville Crump |
| 1983 | Phil the Fluter | 8 | 10-00 | Shaun Keightley | H. Wharton |
| 1984 | Forgive 'n Forget | 7 | 11-07 | Mark Dwyer | Jimmy FitzGerald |
| 1985 | Fortina's Express | 8 | 11-01 | R. Hawkins | Arthur Stephenson |
| 1986 | The Thinker | 8 | 11-06 | Richard Dunwoody | Arthur Stephenson |
| 1987 | Yahoo | 7 | 10-04 | Tom Morgan | John Edwards |
| 1988 | Whats What | 9 | 10-01 | Peter Niven | Brian Bousfield |
| 1989 | Durham Edition | 11 | 10-06 | Alan Merrigan | Arthur Stephenson |
| 1990 | Bluff Knoll | 7 | 10-00 | Geoff Harker | Bobby Brewis |
| 1991 | Stay on Tracks | 9 | 10-00 | Chris Grant | Arthur Stephenson |
| 1992 | Abandoned due to frost |
| 1993 | General Pershing | 7 | 10–13 | Neale Doughty | Gordon W. Richards |
| 1994 | Cogent | 10 | 10-08 | Chris Bonner | Jeremy Glover |
| 1995 | Abandoned due to frost |
| 1996 | Abandoned due to frost |
| 1997 | Strath Royal | 11 | 10-10 | Martin Brennan | Owen Brennan |
| 1998 | Random Harvest | 9 | 09-11 | Alan Dempsey | Mary Reveley |
| 1999 | Abandoned due to frost |
| 2000 | Abandoned due to frost |
| 2001 | Behrajan | 6 | 11-10 | Mark Bradburne | Henry Daly |
| 2002 | no race 2002 | | | | |
| 2003 | Gunner Welburn | 11 | 10-00 | Richard McGrath | Andrew Balding |
| 2004 | Truckers Tavern | 9 | 11-02 | Keith Mercer | Ferdy Murphy |
| 2005 | Therealbandit | 8 | 09-10 | Andrew Glassonbury | Martin Pipe |
| 2006 | Leading Man | 6 | 10-00 | Graham Lee | Ferdy Murphy |
| 2007 | Lothian Falcon | 8 | 10-07 | Robert Walford | Peter Maddison |
| 2008 | Nozic | 7 | 10-08 | Harry Skelton | Paul Nicholls |
| 2009 | no race 2009–10 | | | | |
| 2011 | According to Pete | 10 | 09-11 | Harry Haynes | Malcolm Jefferson |
| 2012 | Cape Tribulation | 8 | 11-10 | Jack Doyle | Malcolm Jefferson |
| 2013 | Cloudy Too | 7 | 11-00 | Jonathan England | Sue Smith |
| 2014 | Dolatulo | 7 | 11-04 | Dougie Costello | Warren Greatrex |
| 2009 | no race 2015 | | | | |
| 2016 | Definitly Red | 7 | 11-00 | Henry Brooke | Brian Ellison |
| 2017 | Get On The Yager | 7 | 10-07 | Henry Brooke | Dan Skelton |
| 2018 | Lake View Lad | 8 | 11-10 | Henry Brooke | Nick Alexander |
| 2019 | Top Ville Ben | 7 | 11-11 | Thomas Dowson | Philip Kirby |
| 2020 | Canelo | 7 | 11-06 | Tom Bellamy | Alan King |
| 2021 | Good Boy Bobby | 8 | 11-08 | Sam Twiston-Davies | Nigel Twiston-Davies |
| 2022 | Into Overdrive | 7 | 10-11 | Jamie Hamilton | Mark Walford |
| 2023 | Fontaine Collonges | 8 | 10-03 | Shane Quinlan | Venetia Williams |
| 2024 | Some Scope | 6 | 09-09 | Charlie Maggs | Richard Hobson |
| 2025 | Konfusion | 7 | 11-02 | Callum Bewley | Joel Parkinson & Sue Smith |
See also
- Racing Post: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
- – Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase – Wetherby.
- – Brief history of Wetherby Racecourse.
- Ladbrokes Pocket Companion 1990/91. Aesculus Press. 1990. p. 47. ISBN 1-871093-21-X.
External links
- Race Recordings (1985, 1989, 1990, 1994-2008)