|}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]
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| Year | Winner | Age | Weight | Jockey | Trainer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Symaethis Nephew | 7 | 10-00 | B Wilkinson | Bobby Renton | |
| 1958 | Dondrosa | 6 | 10-09 | T Kellett | F Taylor | |
| 1959 | Pendle Lady | 9 | 10-06 | M Towers | A 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 | P Buckley | Neville Crump | |
| 1967 | Abandoned because of foot and mouth epidemic | |||||
| 1968 | Chaucer | 6 | 09-13 | P Vaughan | W Hall | |
| 1969 | Chesapeake Bay | 6 | 10–13 | P Buckley | Neville Crump | |
| 1970 | Excess | 8 | 10-09 | Harry Thomson Jones | ||
| 1971 | Great Noise | 7 | 09-07 | D Taylor | W Hall | |
| 1972 | Jomon | 6 | 11-06 | Harry Thomson Jones | ||
| 1973 | Tartan Ace | 6 | 10-05 | Arthur Stephenson | ||
| 1974 | Glen Owen | 7 | 10-02 | P Buckley | Neville Crump | |
| 1975 | The Gent | 7 | 10-09 | Arthur Stephenson | ||
| 1976 | Irish Tony | 8 | 10-09 | D Atkins | Neville Crump | |
| 1977 | Set Point | 9 | 11-05 | D 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| no race 2015 | ||||||
| 2016 | Defin|itly}} 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 | |
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