Harty still loving National buzz 50 years after Highland fling

“When he hit that hill, it was like he was doing what he was bred to do.” So said trainer Eddie Harty after Captain Cee Bee’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle victory in 2008 but he could well have been talking about himself.

Four generations preceded the Curragh handler, not just as jockeys and trainers that rode and prepared winners of just about every race you can think of, but represented Ireland in other equestrian pursuits, most famously at consecutive Olympics.