RACING:CAPTAIN CEE BEE will bid for back-to-back Punchestown Festival victories following his fine effort in last week's Queen Mother Champion Chase.

Eddie Harty’s star was far from disgraced in finishing third behind compatriot Sizing Europe over two miles at Cheltenham and the trainer is now looking forward to his next outing.

“He’s come out of the race great and we were delighted with his performance,” said Harty. “I suppose if you were being super analytical you could say he would have run even better if the ground was quicker and they’d gone a faster pace, but we can’t complain as he’s run very well to finish third.

“All being well he’ll go to Punchestown next. He was good there last year and hopefully he can show his best again. Next season we could try him over two and a half miles, but we’ll just see how we get on.”

Oscars Well is set to drop to the minimum distance at the Punchestown Festival following his luckless defeat at Cheltenham last week. Jessica Harrington’s dual Grade One winner held a narrow advantage jumping the final flight in the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle, but sprawled badly on landing, losing all chance of victory. The six-year-old ended up finishing fourth and Harrington is hoping her charge has more luck on his side on home soil, where he is likely to run over two miles. “He’s come out of the race absolutely fine and all going well, he’ll go to Punchestown,” said Harrington.

Harrington did end up having a Festival winner a little over half an hour later as Bostons Angel struck gold in the RSA Chase. However, he has been signed off for the rest of the campaign. “He won’t be going to Punchestown. He’ll be going home for his summer holidays,” said Harrington.

Get Me Out Of Here is set to seek compensation at Aintree next month following his gallant effort at Cheltenham. The Jonjo O’Neill-trained seven-year-old put in his best performance of the season when touched off on the line by Final Approach in the County Hurdle and will be given the opportunity to go one better on Merseyside.

“He’s fine and he ran a great race,” said Frank Berry, racing manager to owner JP McManus.

“It was grand to see him return to form like that and that wind op has hopefully done its job.”