Hayes collected the winner’s prize and, in the process, joined his rival Francis Connors at the top of the league table. Having won the last two rounds of the series at Tallow and Clonmel, along with another victory earlier this year at Middleton, Hayes took on the largest start list in this year’s Munster series and secured the top spot after a nine horse jump-off. Tina McDermott’s seven-year-old stallion Chipolini VMZ (Cassini II x Heartbreaker), who landed the Tallow Gymkhana a week previous, was again in faultless form, finishing in clear in 44.25 seconds. Co Waterford’s Tadhg Beecher took the runner-up spot with Tim Beecher’s Loughnatousa Blakeney Crannagh, a nine-year-old gelding who won the opening round of the 2013 Munster Grand Prix league at Ballylawn Show. Beecher finished fractionally ahead of another Waterford rider, Peter Moloney riding Ann Foran’s Ballyconnery Wood.

Liam O’Meara, who occupied third place on the league table before Cork Show, grabbed fourth place with Jerry Sweetnam’s Zamir. Kerry native, Maura Counihan, finished fifth with Killerisk Minne just ahead of Lisa O’Farrell and Erkina Heather who, with the only other double clear of the competition, took sixth.