Kris Kin more than repaid £90,000 (€128,000) worth of faith shown by his owner Saeed Suhail and landed a major gamble by sweeping to a scintillating success under champion jockey Kieren Fallon in the Vodafone Derby at Epsom.

Knife Edge will have one more run before taking on Britain’s best two-mile chasers at the Cheltenham Festival in March.