Besides, Shez Sinsational's three Group 1 victories last season - in the Zabeel Classic, Darci Brahma Stakes and Auckland Cup - were a testimony to any wild assertions the Karaka Group Ltd-bred horse was a pretender to the throne.
"Taranaki would have supported her right through but I got a little upset when people sort of dropped off her," Sharrock said.
"She did such a great job last year but they lost the faith, yeah," he said after Shez Sinsational and Bosson came from behind to beat a habitually agitated Guiseppina and Jonathan Riddell into second place by a half a length with a time of 2min 04.89sec in the 2040m weight-for-age race.
The Roger James-trained He's Remarkable and Vinnie Colgan were third by three-quarters of a length while Xanadu and Michael Coleman had to settle for fourth place a long neck back.
Queensland Oaks winner Quintessential and Damien Brown were sixth.
The $187,500 prize money plus silverware in the final and most important chapter of the Rush Munro's Hawke's Bay Spring Racing Carnival trilogy was timely considering Taranaki had lost their grip on the holy grail of rugby, the Ranfurly Shield, earlier last week.
"We went to the rugby and got our bums smashed so this makes it a little better."
Disappointed with the No14 barrier in the 1600m Windsor Park Plate at Hastings a fortnight ago, Sharrock had cursed his luck and instantaneously got that off his chest to predict a victory in the Spring Classic on Saturday.
"She was always going to peak for this race but the position in the last race made her look average," he said.
"You know we've come out and won this one and that's the main thing in racing."
That is not to say Sharrock was chuffed with the barrier No14 on Saturday either, but the end justified the means because, let it be known, everything didn't follow the script.
No doubt Bosson, a winner of more than 40 Group 1 races, had played his part with aplomb when the need for plan B arose.
"Opie's magic. He's a gifted boy like the apprentice, Michael Walker, I had. They are very talented blokes," the Taranaki trainer said, adding he had a lot of respect for the jockey who was his friend.
Father and co-owner Bob Sharrock wasn't feeling well so he didn't attend the Spring Classic.
"He's at home but he'll be having a scotch so he'll be good," the son said.
Sharrock and his co-owners now plan to take Shez Sinsational to either the McKinnon Stakes in Flemington, Melbourne, in the first Saturday of next month or the Sandown Classic in the same city but different track a fortnight later.
Asked what the "SAS" head gear stood for on Shez Sinsational, Sharrock revealed it was the acronym of his full name, Stuart Allan Sharrock.
"I was christened Allan Stuart and that means I would have been ASS but mum [the late Barbara Sharrock] didn't want that so she called me Stuart Allan.
"And that's a true story. There's always a twist in racing stories," he said with a grin before rushing off to the stabling.
