YORK owner Tom Tunstall was in the money today after watching his horse Matty Tun triumph in the first race on Knavesmire yesterday.

Matty Tun, trained by John Balding, won the Tote Bookmakers Handicap at 16-1, with John Bramhill aboard.

Matty Tun is owned jointly by Stonebow Snooker Club owner Tom Tunstall and his nephew Tom and runs in the black and white check colours of Newark breeder Olga Tunstall.

The horse is named after the snooker club owner's son and manager Matthew and Tom picked up sizeable winnings after putting a few hundred pounds on his hero at 20-1 yesterday morning.

Matty Tun is a half-brother to Tom Tun and Henry Tun, though the Tunstalls no longer own the last named of that trio.

"The reason he hung badly right for a time yesterday was that his noseband slipped and he started shying his head, but the jockey switched his whip to the other hand," Tom Tunstall explained today. "He will be run again at York in September all being well. He goes better with a bit more cut in the ground than there was yesterday."

Sublimity looked a horse with a big future when completing an 886-1 four-timer for Kieren Fallo on Knavesmire yesterday.

Having be an unlucky loser at Newmarket first time out, Sublimity quickened up in good style to get the better of Fatik by two lengths in the Tote Credit Club Maiden Stakes and better things are in store for him.

"I am particularly pleased for Sublimity. It was disappointing when he hung left across the course first time out at Newmarket. He would have won that day so it is nice for him to win here," said Fallon, who rewarded his legions of followers with a brilliant four-timer on Sir Michael Stoute's trio Zee Zee Top (11-10), Funfair (10-3) and Sublimity (11-4), as well as Landing Light (25-1), on the second stage of York's May meeting.

The champion jockey, who was taking his score for the year to 58, did pick up a caution for careless riding on Landing Light, but he said afterwards: "It is great to ride four winners at a meeting, but when you have good rides you have to make the most of them."

Zee Zee Top, winner of one of her two races as a three-year-old, is set for another step up in class after making a successful return to the fray in the Listed tote.co.uk Middleton Stakes.

Fallon gave the half-sister to Opera House an enterprising ride, dashing her into the lead with five furlongs to run, and then cleverly keeping a bit up his sleeve to decisively shake off the renewed challenge from Chorist by a length.

Updated: 11:32 Thursday, May 15, 2003