KARL Burke won the featured Group 3 Ballycorus Stakes on Thursday evening with Native Warrior. Sent off the 6/4 favourite under James Doyle, the Wathnan Racing-owned gelding led inside the final furlong to beat fellow British raider Audience by three-quarters of a length.

Burke, who won both the 2018 and ‘25 renewals of the course’s Matron Stakes with Laurens and Fallen Angel, commented: “I love Leopardstown! I couldn’t understand why he ran so badly at Naas the last day, but he came back with a dirty scope afterwards.