Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase

Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase
2014
Dolatulo Cape Tribulation Corrin Wood

The Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase is a Grade 3 National Hunt chase 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 and 1 furlong (5,029 metres), and during its running there are eighteen 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 has held Grade 3 status since 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.

Winners

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 because of frost
1962 Abandoned because of frost
1963 Abandoned because of frost
1964 Abandoned because of frost
1965 Abandoned because of 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 Stan Mellor Harry Thomson Jones
1971 Great Noise 7 09-07 D Taylor W 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 P Buckley Neville Crump
1975 The Gent 7 10-09 Tommy Stack 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 [1]
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 G. Harker R. Brewis
1991 Stay on Tracks 9 10-00 Chris Grant Arthur Stephenson
no race 1992
1993 General Pershing 7 10-13 Neale Doughty Gordon W. Richards
1994 Cogent 10 10-08 Mr Chris Bonner Jeremy Glover
no race 1995–96
1997 Strath Royal 11 10-10 Martin Brennan Owen Brennan
1998 Random Harvest 9 09-11 Alan Dempsey Mary Reveley
no race 1999–00
2001 Behrajan 6 11-10 Mark Bradburne Henry Daly
no race 2002 [2]
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 [3]
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 [4]

1 The 1981 running was abandoned because of snow and frost.
2 The race was cancelled in 2002 due to waterlogging.
3 The race was abandoned in 2009 because of snow and in 2010 because of frost.
4 The race was abandoned in 2015 because of waterlogging.

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References

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