Three-year-old Elpenor (Excellent Art - Elena), ambitiously pitched in the fray by Bangalore-based trainer SS Attaollahi, annihilated his ten rivals to win the Gr 1, Poonawalla Breeders' Multi-Million (PBMM), the richest juvenile race in the country that was run at the Mahalaxmi racetrack on Sunday. Jockey Suraj Narredu who, despite riding more than 2,000 winners but had struggled to win this prestigious race, finally added it to the list of his illustrious conquests. Elpenor missed setting a new course record by merely 0.12 seconds when he stopped the clock at 1m:21.542s for the seven-furlong trip.

Suraj Narredu settled Elpenor near the rear end of the field even as the top five Mumbai horses decided to go with the pace, favourite Jamari showed the way to Irish Gold and Fighton, followed by Portofino Bay and Generosity. After turning for home the front runners came under pressure and started wilting, but it looked like one of them may still scrape through. However, the moment Suraj got Elpenor to move on the extreme outside, the Attaollahi ward, bred at the Poonawalla stud farm, flew like a winged horse, and before anyone could know what was happening, it was all over bar the shouting as the property of Mukul Sonawala and DR Thacker made some blue-blooded rivals look almost pedestrian.