on her racecourse debut shamshir started favourite for a seven furlong maiden race at newmarket racecourse on 10 august and finished fifth of the ten runners behind the clive brittain-trained kohinoor. in a similar event over the same course and distance two weeks later she started 3/1 second favourite behind the john gosden-trained majmu. she was amongst the leaders from the start, overtook majmu a furlong out and held off the renewed challenge of the favourite to win by a head with a gap of two and a half lengths back to the other fourteen runners. in september shamshir was stepped up in class and distance for the group three may hill stakes over one mile at doncaster racecourse. she started 6/1 third favourite, alongside majmu and behind the sweet solera stakes winner trojan crown and the michael stoute-trained maiden winner joud. after being restrained by dettori in the early stages, shamshir moved up to dispute the lead but after a sustained struggle with majmu she was beaten a short head, with the pair finishing six lengths clear of trojan crown in third.