Nimello created a piece of handicap history when winning the big betting race of the Bank Holiday at Kempton yesterday.

Paul Cole's five-year-old sent favourite backers home in happy mood by lifting the Doubleprint Stakes.

And the victory meant he became the first horse to win both this race, which had been run as the Jubilee Stakes from 1897 until a new sponsor changed its name last year, and the Lincoln (founded in 1853) in the same season.

It also saw the gelding take his earnings to over £100,000.

Nimello had a wall of horses in front of him in the home straight but found a way through to cut down the leader Bold King well inside the final furlong to land the spoils by one and a quarter lengths.

Nimello had won the Lincoln on his previous start in late March and Cole said: "The plan was always to go for this. And he did well to get up. He really only goes on this ground and he might go for a Group Two in Italy at the end of the month."