CLASSY ZEUS THUNDERS HOME AT HQ

ZEUS OLYMPIOS stretched his perfect record to 4-4 in Newmarket’s BOYLE Sports Daily Racing Rewards Joel Stakes - and trainer Karl Burke can’t wait for 2026.

- by DAVID YATES

Godophin's Opera Ballo went off the 4-5 favourite for the Group Two mile test, but the hotpot had no answer when Clifford Lee sent Zeus Olympios to the front a furlong out en route to a two-and-a-quarter-length victory.