Former Woodside Park shuttler Elzaam (Aus) sired his first winners in Europe with King Electric (Curragh) and Berkshire Boy (Bath) on Monday.

King Electric (2c Elzaam – Kind Regards by Unfuwain) won third time out after making all the running in the Ivawood EBF Race (1000m).  He defeated Coolmore Stud colt Peace Envoy (Power) by a half-length.

A 25,000 euros buy at the 2015 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale, he is from Kind Regards (LR Virginia Stakes), a half-sister to USA Group 1 winner White Heart.

“He’s a good horse with a good temperament,” trainer Ger Lyons said.  “It was a good pot and I thought it would take a stakes horse to beat him giving away weight.  If he finished second it was no harm.  We’ve been second to Aidan (O’Brien) plenty of times.”

Elzaam didn’t have to wait long for his second success with Berkshire Boy running out a ready winner of the Shirley Flaskett 80th Birthday Novice Stakes (1000m) later in the afternoon.

Berkshire Boy (2c Elzaam – Circuit City by Exit To Nowhere) was purchased by trainer Andrew Balding for 50,000gns from Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

Elzaam (Redoute’s Choice) was conceived to northern hemisphere time at Arrowfield Stud in Australia in 2007 and was purchased by Sheikh Hamdan for 280,000 euros at the 2009 Arqana August yearling sale.

Trained by Roger Varian, he was narrowly denied in the G2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot and returned at three for a 6 length victory in the LR Carnavon Stakes at Newbury.

Elzaam shuttled from Ballyhane Stud to Woodside Park in 2013 for a $10,000 service fee but was shunned by Victorian breeders.  There are 19 yearlings from that crop and the only to sell so far has been the colt from Moonah Bells (Giant’s Causeway) who made $18,000 at the Tasmanian Magic Millions in February.

KING ELECTRIC
Elzaam colt (rails) holds off Peace Envoy at the Curragh