"The Grand National and which flat race together comprise ""The Spring Double""?"
1984 Grand National the previous year's race. He was also being given 2 lbs less to carry but had yet to win a race since being transferred to the yard of Dermot Weld who was aiming to land a unique spring double, having saddled the winner of the Lincoln Handicap a week before the National. Broomy Bank was relatively lightly raced prior to his winning the Kim Muir Challenge Cup at the Cheltenham festival a few weeks before the National but with a 66% win rate he was backed to 12/1 for leading amateur rider, Jim Wilson. Lucky Vane came to Aintree on
Nickel Coin Mares' Standard Open NH Flat Race Nickel Coin Mares' Standard Open NH Flat Race The Nickel Coin Mares' Standard Open NH Flat Race is a Grade 2 National Hunt flat race in Great Britain which is open to fillies and mares aged four to six years. It is run at Aintree over a distance of about 2 miles and 1 furlong , and it is scheduled to take place each year during the Grand National meeting in early April. The race is named after Nickel Coin, the winner of the 1951 Grand National and the most recent mare to win the Grand National. The race was