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Trainer Imogen Miller mad mixed feelings when her stable newcomer Dunbrody Power edged out her more fancied stablemate Algernon to win the Winzenberg Quality Handicap over 1100 metres in Hobart on Sunday.

Algernon was sent out the $2.25 favourite and loomed to win about 200 metres from home, but Dunbrody Power ($18) had other ideas and burst clear close to home to defeat her stablemate by a head with Gee Gee Secondover ($15) a close-up third.

Imogen Miller said the winner had been working up to a win from three previous outings in Tasmania but has only just started to settle into her new training environment at Seven Mile Beach.

"The Sydney owners had retired her but then thought of sending her to me to try and get some black type into her, so here she is," Miller said.

"Her first three starts for me were quite good but she just wasn't ready and today she showed that she might be able to pick up a decent mares race.

"The Bow Mistress (Group 3) is one that we will look at (in February), but for now we are just pleased that she's been able to win a good race."

Liffeybeau and Julius set a cracking pace in front and they were still battling it out half-way up the home straight until Algernon loomed three-wide and was being declared the winner.

But Troy Baker was able to aim Dunbrody Power into a gap and she burst through to grab victory in the shadows of the post.