MYRTLE BEACH – Watching horses trot by the beach bar, she missed Green Mountain Persephone.

"I used to sleep in the stall," Marie Grenier said of the Shetland pony she raised as a child in northern Vermont. "But this, watching all of these horses feels so good."

She jumped from her corner table on the patio of McAdoo’s Beach Bar , grabbed a few cut carrots and apples the bar provided and waited for a horse to stop at the water barrels in front of the bar off 3rd Avenue South on Nov. 8.

The American Heart Association ’s 44th annual beach ride raised almost $450,000 over the five-day event that continues through Nov. 9. The money is used for research and education to fight heart disease and stroke.

As they have for decades, the event centers around Lakewood Camping Resort with sile

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