Redoute’s Choice represented at Royal Ascot

Australian interest in the opening day of Royal Ascot on Tuesday 15 June has naturally centred on the Australian-owned and-trained entries, but Arrowfield will also be paying close attention to two-year-old colt Elzaam in the Coventry Stakes G2.

A son of Redoute’s Choice from Mambo In Freeport (USA) (by Kingmambo), Elzaam was born in Australia to northern hemisphere time, in January 2008. He was bred by Kia Ora Stud, NSW and sold at the 2009 Arqana August Sale to Shadwell France for ?280,000.

Elzaam was sent by Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum to trainer Michael Jarvis, and made his first raceday appearance on 13 May at York where won impressively over six furlongs (1200m). In the process, Elzaam became the first member of Redoute’s Choice’s first northern time crop to race, and the first representative of Arrowfield’s champion sire to win in Europe.

The Coventry Stakes, first run in 1890, has attracted 21 entries, 18 of them winners, and will be run at 4.25 pm on Tuesday BST/1.25 am on Wednesday AEST.