NOT for the first time in his highly successful career, Danny Mullins employed enterprising tactics when guiding the gambled-on Eastmore, owned by Justin Carthy and Patrick John O’Brien, to a facile success in Limerick’s Cappawhite Civil Engineering Handicap Hurdle over two miles.

The 10/11 favourite was kept to the wide outside throughout and, enjoying a visibly drier surface than the rest of the field who raced on watered ground, cruised home to win by an eased-down 15 lengths from Dairy Force.