Abu Dhabi: Irish champion Jockey Tadhg O’Shea and compatriot Oisin Murphy dominated the final meeting of the season at Abu Dhabi Racecourse by winning five of the six races on Sunday.

O’Shea added three wins to his tally, while Murphy ended up with a grand double. The latter — the British apprentice champion — led Dormello to victory past the favoured Sanshaawes in the Group 3 Abu Dhabi Championship, before teaming up with Its Far From Over to beat Salem Al Ketbi’s Nymphea Du Paon to land the 2,200-m Group 1 Emirates Championship, the feature event of the final night.

Its Far From Over, trained by Omar Daraj, made giant strides 200 metres from the finish and hit the front in the final 50 metres after passing Nymphea Du Paon, under Shane Karlsson, before winning by one-and-a-quarter lengths. Nymphea Du Paon held off the challenge from two stable companions, Shayel Aldhabi in third and Skoop, who came fourth.

“He had some very good form when he arrived from America two years ago. We always thought he had a really big prize in him but it took him a very long time to acclimatise. We have been very patient with him and tonight we have been rewarded,” Daraj said of Its Far From Over.

“I told him [Murphy] to be patient in the first half of the race and to ease into contention, which is exactly what Oisin did. Luckily the plan has worked out.”

In the Abu Dhabi Championship over 2,200 metres, Murphy led Dhruba Selvaratnam’s Dormello through the traffic from the middle of the pack. He then had enough legs to beat the Mike de Kock-trained Sanshaawes, the mount of Gerald Avranche, by a quarter of a length. Dormello had also won his last outing in Jebel Ali three weeks ago.

“It’s been a lucky race for me, having won it five or six times. Dormello ran a good race last time at Jebel Ali and we were hopeful. Now we’ll wait for an invite for the Sheema Classic. Hopefully he can get a run on World Cup night,” said trainer Selvaratnam.

The evening started with Al Ketbi-trained RB Burning Ash, ridden by O’Shea, beat Wazn, trained by Helal Al Alawi, to clinch the Al Shahamah Maiden by a head. Early leader Dahham W’Rsan was led to third place by Sam Hitchcott.

Al Ketbi’s Shaheer also continued his amazing run of form as O’Shea led him to his third successive win.

The hat-trick for O’Shea came on AS Asehaf, who won the Wathba Stud Farm Cup Championship for Private Owners.

“Abu Dhabi has been my luckiest race track. It has been a great night and it is nice to end it this way. RB Burning Ash has had a bit of experience as he had two good runs here. He got held up a bit on the home straight. A smoother exit and we could have gotten home easily. But then, a head is as good as five lengths,” O’Shea said.