Dubai: Former six-time British champion jockey Kieren Fallon pulled off one of the biggest shocks in recent British racing history by winning the Qipco 2,000 Guineas aboard the 40-1 outsider Night Of Thunder at Newmarket, England on Saturday.

The three-year-old son of Dubawi, who was making only his fourth racecourse appearance, provided veteran owner and Emirati businessman Saeed Manana with his first success in the 206-year-old Classic.

Kingman, the popular 7-4 favourite finished second and Australia, who heads the market for next month’s Epsom Derby, ran a big race in third.

Ridden by James Doyle, the John Gosden-trained Kingman was shaping like a winner approaching the final furlong, before Night Of Thurder stormed across the width of the Rowley Mile track to snatch a thrilling, and most daring victory.

Manana, a multiple international Group 1 winning owner for the past 12 years, has been a close associate of Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

Shaikh Mohammad was present at Newmarket to watch the race together with his son Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, and congratulated an emotional trainer Richard Hannon, who was sampling his first Classic success.

“I’m absolutely delighted, although I couldn’t quite get to watch it, I had my eyes on Toormore,” Hannon, who took over from his father Richard at the end of last season, told Channel 4 racing presenter Claire Balding. “We always thought a lot of him and he’s done it well. He gets a mile, no problem, and he settled better today.”

Asked if his dad was watching the race, Hannon said: “For sure he was. He nearly came, but he’ll be absolutely delighted as well.”

Fallon, who was notching his fourth 2,000 Guineas victory and first since Footstepsinthesand in 2005, said: “He has an unbelievable turn of foot and he put it to good use today.

“This is a really good horse and hopefully he can continue this. They went a huge gallop and that suited him.”

Earlier in the afternoon, veteran Sole Power, who has contested the last four runnings of the Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan Racecourse, ran out a compelling winner of the Group 3 Pearl Bloodstock Palace House Stakes.

Sent off as the 7-4 favourite, Sole Power was switched on the outside by his rider Ryan Moore to find daylight in the final furlong and he quickly found a new set of gears to power clear and score by half a length from the fast finishing Kingsgate Native, the mount of Jim Crowley.

British bookmakers reacted swiftly to the performance and slashed his odds to 7-1 (from 12s) for the £375,000 (Dh2.32 million) King’s Stand Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot on June 17.

“He’s very effective over five furlongs,” Moore told Channel 4 racing. “If he gets a hard pace he runs for it.”

Trainer Edward Lynam, who has campaigned his stable star in all the major sprints in Europe and Dubai, was delighted to win a second Palace House Stakes.

“Ryan said he was super today — unlike his trainer, he is improving with age,” Lynam joked.

“He’s very honest — too honest — and Ryan loved him today. We’re looking forward to another good season. If he gets three things — his ground, that he’s bouncing out of his skin, and that Ryan Moore rides — he’ll go to the Temple Stakes.

“If not, then he’s off to the King’s Stand at Royal Ascot.”