Assessment
Oh So Sharp was given a rating of 131 by the independent Timeform organisation in 1985, making her the highest-rated three-year-old filly of the year. In the official International classification for 1985 she was the top rated filly of her generation by a margin of six pounds. In their book A Century of Champions, based on a modified version of the Timeform sysem John Randall and Tony Morris rated Oh So Sharp a “superior” Oaks winner and an "average" winner of the St Leger. They placed her twenty-eighth in their list of the best female racehorses trained in Britain and Ireland in the 20th century.
Steve Cauthen called her, "without doubt, the best filly I have ridden."
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