Pam Neal was a retired Warwickshire schoolteacher so not your typical trainer. She bred a mare Jockette she bought for £100 and Mac Vidi was the result.
To quote Timeform;
‘Perhaps in this great enthusiasm, his zest for jumping and his heart for a fight, lies the clue to discovering a reason why he blossomed in the extraordinary way he did. He may well be what he is largely as a result of the individual and unconventional care given him in his last few years by his owner-breeder-trainer [Pam Neal], who has a guest house to run in addition to looking after her very useful old chaser. Mac Vidi is turned out in a field on Dartmoor for a large part of the day, by all accounts, and has probably thrived more on that than he would have done if he’d been left as one of the string of either of his former trainers.’