You don't live in China SC, or are you on their payroll? comrade?........I really wonder at times, pseudo socialists don't you just luv em?....

To be fair, the aristocracy probably said the same thing whenever they shipped one out here in the early colonial period.

The real concern, of course, is what happens to the Au/NZ business when HK buys out of China instead?

Mick Price seems to train a lot of these ‘Yulong’ horses.

But I assume they’ll place all these young Galileo colts with a trainer (or trainers) who is more adept at training stayers. Is there any indication which stable they will go to?

Maher/Eustace apparently has some of the stouter bred types.  

Yueshen Zhang was merely one of the anonymous at the 2010 Melbourne Cup as a crowd of 110,223 watched Americain storm to victory.

Drawn to Flemington while on a trip to Australia to visit his daughters April and Rachel, who were studying in Melbourne at the time, Zhang was smitten by Australian racing.

And the opportunities it presented.

Nine years on, the Chinese business magnate is no longer anonymous.

Zhang has emerged as one of the most serious – and quirky – players in the quicksilver world of thoroughbred investment and breeding.

And, as he pours millions into an adopted passion, Zhang has made it clear he wants to develop his Yulong brand into the most potent bloodstock entity in the world.

Those aspirations would be underpinned by Blue Diamond Stakes victory by Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Catch Me at Caulfield on Saturday.

Equally, Zhang’s growing impact on the Victorian scene would also be underlined by the expected healthy competition for his quality draft at the Inglis Premier yearling Sale from March 3-6 at Oaklands.

Either way, Yulong’s chief operating officer Sam Fairgray has no doubt Zhang intends to deliver on a lofty mission statement.

“He wants us to be the best in the world and he’s worked very hard so far to achieve what he has with what he’s done in China,” Fairgray said.

“Now with the thoroughbreds in Australia, he wants to make it a world-class organisation where we breed and sell high-class horses and have a very good operation.”

There are ironies and twists – but no lack of intent – in Zhang’s journey.

Described as a “MacGyver” personality because of a penchant for eccentric genius, Zhang bought Gerry Ryan’s Limerick Lane at Nagambie and his now developing the property into his southern hemisphere breeding hub.

Ryan raced Americain, the French star who raced to Cup glory at Zhang’s Melbourne Cup initiation.

When Zhang visits the stunning stone house Ryan had purpose-built at Nagambie, the billionaire is impressively hands-on, according to Fairgray.

Fairgray says Zhang shifts irrigators, walks the paddocks to check on horses, fixes electrical faults and deal with wasp nests without calling a small army of staff to help.

“I would describe him as very passionate and engaged with everything he does,” Fairgray said. “He loves Victoria.

“His two daughters came to university in Melbourne (April is now Yulong’s finance director) and he went to the Melbourne Cup and it built from there.

“He’s very strong about building a base here in Victoria.

“He loves going to the races, country Victoria, anywhere.

“When he’s here at the farm he walks around and looks at every horse because he understands nutrition and he loves to be around them.

“It’s not just a business acquisition, he’s passionate about the animals.”

With horses spread through Australia’s elite stables, including Chris Waller, Lindsay Park, Mick Price, Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, Zhang has 140 horses in work and 130 broodmares. Eventually, he intends standing up to 10 stallions at Nagambie.

With another property at Bayles, Zhang is laying the blueprint for forays elsewhere.

“He wants it to be global,” Fairgray said. “Australia is his focus at the moment and once we get that up and going, he’ll want to branch out.

“We’ve got horses racing in Ireland and in America. We’ll have some going to the Dubai World Cup, there are horses in Singapore.

“He’s applied for his owners licence in Japan.

“He’s very passionate about racing and breeding.

“His knowledge of the Australian industry is amazing, it’s really quite scary of what he knows of the Australian industry.”

Fairgray and Zhang communicate via WeChat or an interpreter.

Either way, the message is the same: Plan, execute and grow.

Catch Me, to be ridden by Dwayne Dunn on Saturday, is a TAB $11 shot to give Yulong its most important Victorian success.

The Inglis Premier sale has 786 lots listed over four days. The sale is due to start from 11am on March 3.

Yes, Sam PG was working for Yulong.
I’m unsure if he still is.

Lifted straight from the Herald Sun. Quality journalism

Editors don't edit. The position sets strategic direction (agenda) for the publication.

Xavier wrote: Lifted straight from the Herald Sun. Quality journalism

Is this a better source.

So, I would assume they have brought into him a s a stallion.

That's a great question Lord Hybrow.

Noticed this mob finally had a winner today with Yulong Captain (by Galileo) in a 2000m maiden at Wangaratta.

I’ve seen a few of these “Yulong” branded imports putting in sone very ordinary runs

since when was it acceptable to have brand names in horses names?