{"id":11251,"date":"2024-12-23T16:51:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T16:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bettingsitesreviewed.co.uk\/?p=11251"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T16:51:24","slug":"boxing-day-racing-rowland-meyrick-handicap-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettingsitesreviewed.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/23\/boxing-day-racing-rowland-meyrick-handicap-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day Racing – Five Races of Note Outside Major Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you think of Boxing Day racing, most fans of UK and Irish racehorses have Kempton as their first thought. That is just one of 11 (ELEVEN) meetings that take place in the British Isles on 26 December.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In other words, it’s not simply just about the King George VI Chase<\/a> day and its six-race card at the Sunbury-on-Thames track in Greater London. Kempton is, in fact, just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

There’s a whole lot of other horse racing action going on elsewhere. From a two-day fixture at Wetherby to the Aintree Boxing Day<\/a> meeting, a new innovation of The Jockey Club’s from 2023 onwards, and cards in Northern and the Republic of Ireland, watch out for lots of action on tracks across the land.<\/p>\n

Away from the limelight of such major meetings, some of the other fixtures deserve a closer look. That’s why we asked our experts to step away from Kempton Park Boxing Day<\/a> and Aintree action to look elsewhere at five key races to note across the British Isles.<\/p>\n

Our horse racing experts’ analysis of these sheds light on every corner the one of the busiest days of the sport’s annual calendar as we take a look at both hurdles events and steeplechases.<\/p>\n

Boxing Day Racing<\/h2>\n

1:35 Wetherby – 3m 45y Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase (Premier Handicap)<\/h3>\n

There is only one Premier Handicap on Boxing Day and that’s in West Yorkshire. Among the eight declared for the Rowland Meyrick at Wetherby are some interesting runners and old favourites.\u00a0Good Boy Bobby\u00a0<\/strong>won this very race three years ago off a rating of 146, but Nigel Twiston-Davies’ veteran returns rising 12 off just 131 with a 7lb claimer aboard.<\/p>\n

The 3m trip might be on the sharp side for ex-Willie Mullins long-distance chaser\u00a0Mr Incredible<\/strong>, who is now with the Sandy Thomson stable. Topweight doesn’t make things any easier for him. Rehearsal Chase fourth\u00a0Some Scope <\/strong>is at the other end of the handicap, meanwhile, with Callum Pritchard taking 7lb off for Richard Hobson.<\/p>\n