Sharnee Rose, once tagged as the best city maiden about, put her best foot forward in winning the Charter Keck Cramer Handicap at Caulfield.

Her only previous win was in a Maiden race on Bendigo Cup day, after an exasperating run of placings in good quality filly’s races in the city.

The key to her maybe is to keep her fresh, she hadn’t raced since mid November, she came out on Saturday with all guns blazing, it was a good performance with promises of better things to come in the future.

Sharnee Rose has failed under the recognised top jockeys previously, this time leading apprentice, Damien Lane, was given the assignment and preformed like a veteran.

His timing was perfect, waiting until well into the straight before calling on the filly for her winning run.

Sharnee Rose is just one of a number of horses raced by Barrie and Midge Griffiths, under the training partnership of Matthew Ellerton, and his cousin Simon Zahra.

It has been a very successful venture for all concerned, those pale blue yellow checks, red cap are quite familiar in the winner’s circle.

However, those colours are rarely carried by male stock, the owners preferring to race fillies, among the only males they raced was Tawrrific, the 1989 Melbourne Cup winner.

Sharnee Rose breaks her city maiden