Oh So Sharp [SEP] father
and a grand mover with a raking stride" was bred in Ireland by her owner Sheikh Mohammed. She was one of two classic winners sired by Kris the leading British miler of 1979: the chestnut Oh So Sharp came from his first crop of foals. Her dam was the American-bred mare Oh So Fair, making her a half-sister to Roussalka a filly which won the Coronation Stakes and two runnings of the Nassau Stakes when trained by Henry Cecil in the mid-1970s. She later became a successful broodmare, whose
descendants include Collier Hill and Ameerat. Oh So Fair was carrying the unborn Oh So Sharp in October 1981 when she was included in the deal in which Sheikh acquired the Dalham Hall stud.
Oh So Sharp was sent into training at Henry Cecil's Warren Place stables in Newmarket, Suffolk. She was ridden in all of her races as a three-year-old by the American jockey Steve Cauthen. Lester Piggott had ridden Oh So Sharp during 1984, his last season as stable jockey at Warren Place.
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