Bow Echo ran out the winner of the Betfred 2000 Guineas at Newmarket for trainer George Boughey and jockey Billy Loughnane.
Unbeaten as a two-year-old, the Night Of Thunder colt - bred by his late owner Sheikh Mohammed Obaid - was always travelling supremely well, with the field splitting into two groups.
He came to join battle with Aidan O'Brien's 3-1 joint-favourite Gstaad and coming out of the dip it was Loughnane's mount who proved the strongest, powering to a two-and-three-quarter-length victory at 9-2, with the pair eight lengths clear of the other market leader, Distant Storm.
