Sent off the 5/4 favourite Dorset Square was strongly fancied to win the Europe Hotel & Resort Handicap and win he did for trainer Willie Mullins and jockey Gary Carroll.

With just four runners at the Killarney Festival this week, Mullins recorded his third winner with the son of Fantastic Light, having won with Laganbank on Monday and Sin Palo yesterday.

Having finished second on Melodie D'Amour in the opener and Moving Statue thirty mintues later, jockey Gary Carroll managed to go one place better in this two mile, one furlong flat handicap.

Recording his fifth win from his last seven starts, the 7yo gelding responded well to his jockeys urgings and just got his head in front close home. The eventual runner-up Ghareer (7/1) ran on well down the outside, but the line came just in time for the favourite.

Half a length separated the pair at the line with a further neck back to Brog An Ri who lead the field for much of the race, in third at 9/1.

Travelling head lad for Willie Mullins, Gary Davis said afterwards: "He will keep mixing it now. He might go to Galway next. He is a tough and genuine little horse."

Donal Murphy