Bulletson produced a last to first effort to score an overdue win, and his first for trainer Geoff O'Brien, at Muswellbrook on Saturday.
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As O'Brien remarked post race it was a "long time overdue" with the five-year old saluting for the first time since February 2018. He was with Bjorn Baker then, O'Brien taking him on in March last year.
Saturday was his ninth start for the Quirindi trainer.
O'Brien said the gelding was "hanging on at the finish" of the Dot Robinson & Steve Bottomley Benchmark 50 Handicap (1750m) after hitting the front around half-way down the straight.
As per his usual race pattern, he said Bulletson was at the tail of the field for most of the journey.
"He's always last, last, last, last and always seems to produce a reasonable finish but because he's so far back unless he has a lot of luck he just doesn't get there," O'Brien said.
"But today with a cut-away rail and everything stayed out a bit wider because obviously the boys and girls were thinking it might be a bit soft on the inside."
"But he's come from last and just stuck to the inside."
O'Brien said he looked to be "full of running" when he turned the corner into the straight.
"I'd said to [jockey] Reece (Jones) hold up till you get into the straight before you play all your cards because he's got a habit of sort of petering out on his run," he said.
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"He looked full of running when he turned into the straight and when he first asked for an effort he certainly produced quite an effort to get there (the front)."
He did give Jones "quite a torrid race down the straight" wanting "to duck out and duck in" but he got there, holding on for a short-head win over Egyptian Pharoah (Lindsey Kennedy). Onemore Prince (Rodney Ollerton) was another two-and-a-half lengths back third.
Saturday was the Bullet Train (GB)-In Other Words gelding's first run for three weeks. He was coming off a last start seventh, also at Muswellbrook, having been freshened up for four weeks before that run following a third at Tamworth on February 25.
"He seems to go better with a bit of a break in between," O'Brien said.
Snipex Abaa had earlier in the meeting run a "slightly disappointing" fifth.
It will be a quick turnaround for O'Brien with Billy's Tune and Vega de Lago nominated for Sunday's Armidale meeting. He is then set to head back down the New England Highway to Scone on Tuesday with Chuck'n'paul.
