HOPEFULLY Downpatrick breeder Colin Kennedy showed more faith in Trading Punches than punters did at Chepstow on Tuesday as, on his fourth start, the Elzaam colt landed the seven-furlong two-year-old maiden at odds of 25/1.

Winning the 15-runner race by five lengths, the bay is the last of eight recorded foals out of the three-time winning Efisio mare Kiralik, whose 2013 Lilbourne Lad filly, Nouvelli Dancer, has won five times this year. Kiralik is a half-sister to at least six winners including River Belle (by Lahib) who won at Grade 2 and Group 3 level and was Grade 1-placed.