The black bitch jumped straight to the front and, from there, never looked like being beaten.

The win capped  a “big day” for her Stratheden trainer Charlie Northfield.

He finished with four winners and a second from five runners and also took out the John Jordan Memorial Final with On Interest and the Harold Jordan Cannonball with Kingsbrae Buddy.

He regularly makes the trip up to Tamworth for the Cup and has won a few over the years.

Porky Teller was the second fastest qualifier for Saturday’s Cup final and was too good for them, getting home by a length-and-a-quarter.

It was an explosive run, with the two-year-old clocking 26 seconds flat.

“I was quite happy with the time,” Northfield said.

He couldn’t fault her run either.

“She just left like she was chasing something pretty hard and away she went,” Northfield said.

He had commented after her heat win that he was a bit worried coming down the straight that they might get to her.

But that wasn’t the case on Saturday.

“She cleared them a lot better and Sheba’s Image wasn’t in her sights,” he said.

One of Aberdeen trainer John Lawson’s three starters, she (Sheba’s Image) ran on to finish a 6 1/4length third behind the also Lawson-trained Contact Detail.

The win was all the sweeter for Northfield after she’d been beaten by a head in the Armidale Cup.

She was coming into the heats a bit flat and even then, he said, “wasn’t a well puppy”, but she certainly sparked up on Saturday.

Only 23kg, she is “all heart”, he said.

“She leaves everything on the track,” he said.

He didn’t have an exact plan for her but will probably take her back to the sand at Casino and Lismore now that she’s freshened up on the grass.

 Duri trainer Melanie Mabbott won the Sauers Glass Maiden Final with Spanish Fling while Lloyd Metcalfe junior won the classicbet.com.au Best 8 with Jay Jay’s Raider.

At Moree, Norm Bradford excelled, winning a running double with From The Tap and Embellish.