Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase
The Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase is a Grade 3 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 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.
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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