The Sabrina Harty-trained Empress Toorah got the ball rolling for the Offaly man as she took the opener, the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden, on her 10th career start.

Aboard the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor for the first time, Smullen made all on the 7/2 chance, holding off the challenge of the 15/8 favourite Celestial Fable by a length.