Bee team consider options

Trainer Eddie Harty is unsure where Captain Cee Bee will turn up next following the veteran’s excellent run in defeat in Sunday’s Irish Champion Hurdle.

It is almost six years since the dual Grade One winner enjoyed Cheltenham Festival glory in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle and at the age of 13, it is fair to assume his peak years are behind him.

That said, he performed with huge credit to finish third in Sunday’s feature event, beaten less than three lengths by the brilliant Hurricane Fly having cut out the running, leaving his trainer rightly proud of his teenager’s efforts.