Homecoming Queen has won the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket as trainer Aidan O'Brien completed a Guineas double following Camelot's victory on Saturday.
Jockey Ryan Moore drove Homecoming Queen - a 25-1 outsider - to a convincing victory by nine lengths.
Starscope was second with the previously unbeaten favourite Maybe, ridden by O'Brien's son Joseph, third.
Grey Pearl was fatally injured in the stalls before the race, leading to a half-hour delay.
Maybe was the 13-8 favourite but stablemate Homecoming Queen set off at a blistering gallop and Joseph O'Brien's mount never looked content.
Moore kicked on again going into the dip aboard Ballydoyle's supposed second string and the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor stretched clear.
It was the first victory in the Newmarket fillies' Classic for Moore, who said: "Aidan said she was very fit and very well.
"I thought I was going a stride too quick, but she just kept going. There's not much of her, but she tries very hard. She's very tough."
Aiden O'Brien said: "It's incredible. She's a very good filly."
1,000 Guineas winners
2011: Blue Bunting
2010: Special Duty
2009: Ghanaati
2008: Natagora
2007: Finsceal Beo
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