Beautiful day for Yulong as Pulchritudinous defies odds in Doomben victory

Just about everything Yulong touches seems to turn to gold … even long-priced $31 winners in Brisbane whose names are just about impossible to say.

Pulchritudinous proves a quaddie killer at Doomben when scoring the Group 3 Magic Millions Fillies And Mares Mile for trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott and jockey Tim Clark. Picture: Grant Peters, Trackside Photography.

Just about everything Yulong touches seems to turn to gold.

Even long-priced $31 winners in Brisbane whose names are just about impossible to say.

Pulchritudinous – whose name roughly means physically beautiful or attractive – scored her first win since the Group 1 New Zealand Oaks last year when she was a quaddie killer at Doomben.

Pulchritudinous wasn’t in punters’ sights in the Group 3 Magic Millions Fillies And Mares Mile but went bang as two of the fancied pair Vivy Air and Jennilala finished unplaced.

Just Glamourous was the more fancied Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott contender but led and faded while her stablemate just got stronger over the final stages.

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The Yulong juggernaut purchased Pulchritudinous from her former New Zealand connections last year and have had to be patient with the now four-year-old mare to score her first win on Australian shores.

Tim Clark has been her most regular jockey in Australia and was in the saddle at Doomben as the mare swamped her rivals at big odds.

“We are very thankful that Yulong has been more than happy to be patient with her and she has come back in good shape,” Bott said.

“Obviously she was very talented in New Zealand through her three-year-old career but it has taken a bit longer to get her into a bit of form and used to the conditions over here.

“We’d like to give her a couple of runs up here in Brisbane and she’ll thrive in the conditions.

“I want to see her getting up in trip and she’ll keep improving.

“I think today’s performance was going to determine which way she’d go.

“Whether this lifts our sights a bit more, we’ll try and think about the residual value for

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Yulong and see if we can add to that going forward. Importantly she is back in good shape today.

“Her trial earlier this month was the best we’d seen her since arrival and it was very encouraging.”

Clark was elated Pulchritudinous’s Australian drought had been snapped.

“I’m sure she’s given Gai and Adrian a few sleepless nights,” Clark said.

“She’s obviously came over here in good form from New Zealand and it has taken a long time for her to find that form.

“It has been a long time coming and a lot of work has gone into it.

“Full credit to Gai and Adrian and to her to be able to put in a performance like that.”

Originally published as Beautiful day for Yulong as Pulchritudinous defies odds in Doomben victory