Galloping along the seafront was good enough for the nags Southport’s shrimpers bought from the knacker’s yard – and it was good enough for Red Rum.
Salt-of-the-earth car salesman turned trainer Ginger McCain had observed horses eased back to fitness in the waves as a child.
So when he first bought the seven-year-old gelding in 1972 at the Doncaster sales and discovered he had pedal osteitis, a disease of the bone which threatened to cripple him, he headed to the sea.
