 In the British Free Handicap Sharp Edge was assigned a weight of 127 pounds, making him the seventh-best juvenile, six pounds behind the filly Jacinth and three pounds behind the top-rated colt Noble Decree.The independent Timeform organisation felt that he had been over-rated by the official handicapper and gave him a rating of 112, twenty-one pounds inferior to Jacinth and eighteen pounds behind the French colts Targowice and Simbir.In 1973 he was given a rating of 123 by Timeform, thirteen pounds behind Thatch, who was their highest-rated three-year-old colt.