Sharp Cat was bred by John A. Franks, prepped by Kirkwood Stables, and sold for $900,000 at the 1996 Barretts March select juvenile sale to Saudi Arabia's Prince Ahmed bin Salman who raced her under his The Thoroughbred Corp. Sharp Cat was conditioned for racing from a base in California by future U.S.
[1] In a race that determined the winner of that year's American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, she ran second to Ajina in the 1997 Breeders' Cup Distaff.
[2] Undefeated that year, Sharp Cat was sent to Churchill Downs for the November 1998 Breeders' Cup Distaff as the pre-race favorite but did not compete after suffering a nearly fatal case of cramping that sent her into shock.
[3] Prince Ahmed bin Salman died in 2002, and the following year his estate sold Sharp Cat to Darley Stud while she was in foal to Gone West.
[4] On April 21, 2008, at the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, she was humanely euthanized as a result of birthing complications after delivering a foal by A.P.