VETERAN Bathurst trainer Don Ryan could not have asked for much more from his three-year-old filly Somebody on Sunday as she powered home to take a thrilling win on debut at Dubbo.

The daughter of Dylan Thomas out of Amourous had trialled well in preparation for her first race outing, a 1000 metre Maiden Plate on Sunday.

Despite being held up in the run home after getting stuck behind a big group at the front of the field, jockey Eleanor Webster-Hawes timed her final surge to perfection as Somebody ($25.40) claimed a win right on the line.

She pipped David Smith’s runner Distinctive Look ($9.10) by a nose to salute in exciting fashion.

Re-affirming the difficulty in picking winners in maiden races, $3 favourite I’m A Prima Donna finished ninth.

“She did a really good job, I didn’t think she had quite won the lunge at the finish, but I was very proud of her either way, and proud of the rider as well,” Ryan said of the win.

After sitting midfield early in the sprint event, Webster-Hawes didn’t have much time to try and work out a way through the big group in front of her. 

Thought they offered her cover, they also effectively made a wall in front of her and Somebody. The jockey was forced to wait until the last possible moment to make a significant move.

Distinctive Look was leading the charge for most of the race, having jumped strongly.

He too was on debut and will have lost no friends from his effort, which took a few moments for the judge to confirm.

In third was Mr Swift ($6), a little over a length behind the leading pair.

“Mathew Cahill was on the runner-up and Greg Ryan on the horse in third, so to beat those two was a great effort from the jockey,” Ryan said.

“She had to hook out around the furlong mark. There had been a run there in front of her, but one of the experienced riders closed it pretty quickly, so she had to look elsewhere.”

The odds for Somebody were enticing if punters were to delve a little further into her prior form, even if it was in trials.

Having failed in finishing seventh of seven in a trial at Dubbo in July, she turned things around with a second and a first at Bathurst in August.

Her breeding is solid as well, and she is a half-sister to Ryan’s former stable star So Genourous who amassed nearly $150,000 in prize money in her career which came to an end in 2012.

Our Canny Boy is another who was foaled by Amourous.

“He was probably the best we’ve had in this stable and So Genourous won two races in Sydney, so the pedigree is there, she’s never had a bad foal actually,” Ryan said of Amourous.

“There aren’t a lot of races around at the moment for Somebody, so I’m not sure where to go to next with her, but I’m sure something will come up.”