As one of NSW's leading trainers for many years, it is perhaps fitting Bede Murray has produced the winner of the inaugural Provincial Championship final.

The veteran South Coast trainer had three runners in Saturday's $300,000 race, with the field decided after a series of heats on provincial racetracks.

Murray rated Sure And Fast the best of the trio and his judgment was spot-on when the $5.50 equal favourite came through on the rail to beat the Kris Lees-trained Electric Power ($19) by a length.

"I've had Group One winners and nothing will top that but it's great to be able to win this race," Murray said.

"It's a great concept but there are still a few things they can do.

"This horse is a three-year-old and he should be able to get weight from the older horses.

"He won because he was the best horse in the race.

"I have always had a big opinion of him."

Sure And Fast was the first horse to stake a claim for the rich race, winning the first heat at Wyong on March 5.

He tuned up for Saturday with a fourth in a benchmark race at Rosehill on March 28, a race Murray believed got away from jockey Jason Collett.

"I was disappointed with the ride but Jason has a great strike rate for the stable and all is forgiven today," he said.

Collett has ridden stakes winners in Sydney, but the race was worth considerably more than any other he has won so far.

"I was able to utilise his barrier draw and put him in a spot," Collett said.

"It's fantastic, it's Championships day."

Murray's opinion of Sure And Fast is such that he will now aim him at stakes races. He is also happy that he has lived up to being named after another horse Murray trained many years ago.

"We had six goes at naming him and they all got knocked back," Murray said.

"Sure And Fast won quite a few races for me and I said let's name him after that horse but he better live to the name.

"I think he will.

"We will look at the Scone Guineas and then some of the three-year-old races in Brisbane over the winter carnival."