Opera Ballo makes all to thwart Field Of Gold at Sandown

Opera Ballo produced a brilliant front-running performance to land the bet365 Mile at Sandown.

The Ghaiyyath colt had looked every inch a top-class horse in the making after winning four of his first five starts and while he was no match for the reopposing Zeus Olympios in Newmarket's Joel Stakes in the autumn, he had since registered two emphatic victories in Dubai.