A last-minute decision to contend in the All-Ireland final paid off handsomely for Limerick owner Gerry Mullins when his Electric Flash outshone 14 rivals in the Galway Crystal & Belleek China three-year-old final at Bannow & Rathangan Show.

Champion young horse at Clonmel for the second successive year on his previous outing, Mullins had intended to bypass the first of Horse Sport Ireland’s showing championship series, as he had a number of horses entered for Newmarket sales.