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Article: Triple Crown so fitting for filly who oozed class.(Sports)
- Article from:
- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 9, 2009
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SOMETIMES it's what you do, not the way that you do it. It wasn't pretty, not half as pretty as she was at any rate, but it mattered not after Oh So Sharp had pushed her nose over the line at Doncaster to win the 1985 St Leger and the fillies' Triple Crown.
Victory in the final Classic made her the first filly to complete the treble since Meld in 1955, and she remains the last horse of any sex to win three Classics.
Oh So Sharp, a daughter of the brilliant miler Kris, was one of the stars of a vintage British season that brought us Pebbles, Slip Anchor and ...
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