IT’S not easy to go back to the Coral Scottish Grand National a year after you have run well in it, and win it. History tells you that.

Vicente won it in 2016 off a handicap rating of 146 as a seven-year-old, then went back as an eight-year-old in 2017 and, racing off the same handicap rating, won it again. And he was the first horse since Androma in 1984 and 1985 to win back-to-back renewals.