KALAHARI King continued his build up to the Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase with another seaside outing to Redcar.

Trainer Ferdy Murphy is keen to offer the smart two-miler plenty of variety in his regime with less than two weeks until his big day. Murphy, based at West Witton in North Yorkshire, used the beach for some of Kalahari King’s preparation when his gallops were hit by the cold snap.

But an impressive win by the gelding on his comeback under top weight in a handicap at Doncaster showed the weather had no impact and he is only behind dual winner Master Minded in the Champion Chase betting.

‘‘He worked on Wednesday morning and will work on Friday, but he has been down to the beach twice this week and he really enjoys it,’’ said Murphy.

‘‘He’s one of those horses who goes paddling in the water and has a roll on the beach and a look around.

‘‘Graham Lee said there were a few lads having a five-a-side football match there the other day and the horse was like a spectator.’’