Mike Moroney issued punters with an unexpected warning about Marheta's Queensland Oaks prospects following her game win in the $175,000 Group Three Doomben Roses on Saturday.Marheta ($5 eq fav) enjoyed the run of the race, third on the fence, behind eventual runner-up Femina Fashion ($11) and responded gamely to Mark Zahra's urgings in the straight to notch a three-quarter length win.The Bart Cummings-trained Dariana ($5 eq fav) turned in an ominous performance when she ran home well from well b

Mike Moroney issued punters with an unexpected warning about Marheta's Queensland Oaks prospects following her game win in the $175,000 Group Three Doomben Roses on Saturday.

Marheta ($5 eq fav) enjoyed the run of the race, third on the fence, behind eventual runner-up Femina Fashion ($11) and responded gamely to Mark Zahra's urgings in the straight to notch a three-quarter length win.

The Bart Cummings-trained Dariana ($5 eq fav) turned in an ominous performance when she ran home well from well back to finish the same margin away third in the 2020m race.

All three placegetters will likely face off again in the Oaks (2400m) on June 5 but Moroney warned punters Marheta would need a good barrier and luck in running to get the distance.

"That was a very good ride and barriers make all the difference," Moroney said.

"She has a stayer's action but there's not much of her and I believe she will really need the right run in transit to get the Oaks trip.

"I just hope she can draw well and be put to sleep during the run in the Oaks."

Moroney will be chasing his second Queensland Oaks victory after former topline filly Eskimo Queen won the feature in 2007, and he said both gallopers had similar qualities.

"They are very much alike. They're both not big, heavy fillies and I hope this filly can do what Eskimo Queen did," he said.

Marheta finished runner-up to Femina Fashion in the Gold Coast Bracelet on May 8 and that filly's connections have until May 26 to pay the $11,000 late nomination fee for the Oaks.

If her rider Shane Scriven has his way, Femina Fashion will definitely take her place.

"She really toughed it out well and if she was mine I would be taking her straight to the Oaks," he said.

"She had to work to cross from the outside and she tried all the way to the line - it was a very game effort."

Cummings' stable foreman Reg Fleming said Dariana was a certain Oaks starter and her rider Michael Rodd said he wouldn't swap her for any another mount.

"It was an excellent run considering she hadn't raced for a month," Rodd said.

"She had to come from a fair way back and she will improve again."