SWAN Hill trainer Nathan Hobson was back in the winners' circle on Saturday when Brassi Road blitzed a big field to win the $27,000 Bi-Rite Electrical Maiden Plate over 1400m at Wangaratta.

After a pair of sixths at its first two starts, the three-year-old gelding looked a world-beater as it swept around the field to storm home.

Hobson must have had his heart in his mouth when jockey Ryan Hurdle...