STELA Star, the 33/1 outsider of the five runners field, gave Tom Mullins the first Group 3 success of his training career as the unconsidered daughter of Epaulette picked up an invaluable blacktype triumph in the penultimate pattern race of the season.

After getting off the mark at the third attempt in a Dundalk maiden last month, this €23,000 yearling purchase had the option of the Foran Final at Naas the following afternoon but she rewarded a brave call from her trainer to instead tackle this seven-furlong race.