The thing about sport, and flat racing is no different, is that there are always so many great stories to be told.

If you ask me, Saturday’s 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket provided another intriguing chronicle to rival any bestseller by the late Dick Francis, the steeplechase-jockey-turned-crime-writer, whose novels were based on the sport in England.

This little tale had all the essential ingredients to engage even the most anesthetised racing fan. At the centre of the story was a jockey whose career has seen more ups and downs than an elevator at the JW Marriott Hotel, a horse that was an outsider and the grandson of one of racing’s most celebrated and exulted champions, a ubiquitous racing stable, a trainer who had only last year inherited one of the most renowned stables in the UK from his father and an enthusiastic owner who has been desperately trying to win a British Classic.

Put all of these ingredients in a cooking pot, stir gently and you have yourself a sumptious feast.

The hero, as in most cases, is the jockey, and in this case it was former six-time British champion Kieren Fallon, who delivered a performance befitting Jason Bourne aboard Night Of Thunder, a son of multiple Group 1-winning stallion Dubawi, who himself was from the sole crop of the great Dubai Millennium, one of the most outstanding winners of the Dubai World Cup.

Just when the fickle-minded sceptics were inking their pens to write down a racing obituary, the charismatic Irishman has risen, phoenix-like, to win a race that he has dominated with five previous triumphs. Each as majestic as Saturday night’s exhilarating exhibition of a ride he has patented, driving his horse imperiously across the heath at Newmarket to upstage the big favourites, and leaving the crowd just sitting there, with their mouths hanging open in wonder.

Night of Thunder is owned by Dubai businessman Saeed Manana, who has sampled big-race success but not in a British Classic, and managed by Rabbah Bloodstock, a company that seems to be going from strength-to-strength with several high-profile winners.

The man who plotted the victory of the 40-1 winner was Richard Hannon, once referred to as Junior, but who has since shed the tag, and with it any fleeting inhibitions or having to fill the mammoth shoes of his legendary father Richard Sr, a four-time British champion and trainer of three former winners of the 2,000 Guineas.

What a story this was and it might only be the beginning.

Night Of Thunder looks an exciting prospect for the rest of the season and even if his regular rider Richard Hughes returns to replace the ever-brilliant Fallon in subsequent rides, he is without doubt a horse worth following.