PICKED out for €20,000 as a three-year-old at the Derby Sale by Enda Bolger, Marlbrook went on to win a point-to-point and maiden hurdle under his watch, the latter in the colours of J.P. McManus.

Now with Colm Murphy, he won a novice chase at Fairyhouse on Sunday to open his account at the sixth time of asking for his Wexford handler.