Sabrina Harty and Mick Darcy teamed up successfully with Silas Mariner at Cork on Sunday and the pair repeated the dose with Korean in the Holycross Handicap Hurdle at Thurles.

A mistake two out threatened to scupper the nine-year-old's bid but he was better at the last and stayed on tenaciously on the run-in to see off Lus Na Hoiche Big morning market mover Tell Fraulein was easy to back on track and ran accordingly, well-beaten from the fourth last hurdle.

Korean won the last of a couple of chases in France back in 2007 before joining Richard Pugh to point-to-point. He finished second in a Castletown-Geoghegan open under Pugh's wife Jennifer.

Then his current owner Chris Byrne purchased the nine-year-old to ride him in a charity race and actually ended up partnering him in five races.

He owns Coilog Equestrian Centre in Naas and was delighted with this win as the horse had only gained a reprieve after showing a bit of form recently.