He stood as a breeding stallion in the United States, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand and had some success as a sire of winners.
Elle Seule's dam Fall Aspen was an outstanding broodmare whose other descendants have included Timber Country and Dubai Millennium.
[6] Elnadim missed the spring of 1997 and made his first appearance of the season in a maiden race at Pontefract Racecourse on 3 June.
Starting the 1/2 favourite, he took the lead approaching the final furlong before drawing away in the closing stages to record his first success, beating Present Chance by four lengths.
Two weeks after his defeat at Newmarket, the colt carried top weight of 133 pounds to victory in a minor handicap at Great Yarmouth Racecourse.
Hills sent the colt into the lead from the start and was never seriously challenged, drawing clear in the final furlong to win by three lengths from Monaassib.
[8] On his final run of the year he was moved up in distance for the Challenge Stakes at Newmarket in October when he started favourite but finished fourth behind the Godolphin runner Kahal.
He started favourite but after leading for most of the way he was overtaken inside the final furlong and beaten half a length by Bollin Joanne.
The runners split into separate groups across the wide Newmarket straight with Hills sending Elnadim into an early lead along the rail on the stands-side (the right hand side from the jockeys' viewpoint).
He maintained his advantage throughout and pulled clear in the closing stages to win by two lengths from Tamarisk, who got the better of Danetime and Arkadian Hero in a three-way photo finish for second.