Bahamian Pirate

He stood as a breeding stallion in the United States, Argentina, New Zealand and Japan with mixed results: the best of his other progeny were probably Electronic Unicorn (Hong Kong Horse of the Year in 2002) and Morluc (Woodford Stakes).

Unraced as a two-year-old, Bahamian Pirate made his racecourse debut in a seven furlong maiden race at Gowran Park on 3 May 1998 when he finished fifth behind Alonzo.

Early in the following year he finished fourth, third and second in minor races on the synthetic Fibresand surface at Southwell Racecourse before winning a five furlong maiden at Ripon in August.

Nine days after his Newmarket win the gelding contested his first important race when he carried 111 pounds in the Great St. Wilfrid Stakes and finished third behind William's Well.

After being restrained by Adrian Nicholls in the early stages he made rapid progress to take the lead a furlong out and won by one and a quarter lengths from Lago Di Varano.

[8] The Scotsman's correspondent described the win as "ridiculously easy", whilst David Nicholls said that he was glad that he ignored the advice of Frankie Dettori, who recommended that the horse needed to race in blinkers.

Ridden by Johnny Murtagh he started at odds of 7/1 for a race in which the Barry Hills-trained Munjiz and the Aidan O'Brien stable's representative Freud, were made the joint-favourites.

Bahamian Pirate raced in third before challenging in the final furlong and caught the leader One Won One in the last strides to win by a short head.

Ridden by Murtagh, he broke 26-race losing streak and won for the first time in two and a half years as he defeated Fromsong by one and a quarter lengths.

After racing towards the rear of the field he kept on strongly in the closing stages to take the lead 50 yards from the finish and won by a neck from Balmont.

On 19 August on his favoured soft ground, Bahamian Pirate, ridden by Seb Sanders, made his third attempt to win the Nunthorpe Stakes and started a 16/1 outsider in a twelve runners field.

The gelding came under pressure in the last quarter mile but stayed on strongly to overtake the weakening Airwave inside the final furlong and won by a neck from The Tatling with One Cool Cat taking third ahead of Avonbridge and Orientor.

[19] Bahamian Pirate failed to reproduce his York form in two subsequent starts that year, finishing unplaced in both the Haydock Sprint Cup and the Prix de l'Abbaye.

He failed to win again in thirteen starts as an eleven-year-old in 2006 but did produce some good performances in defeat including a third place under 125 pounds in the Wokingham Stakes.

He was without a win in two and a half years and on a losing run of 25 races when he started at odds of 12/1 for a minor handicap under top weight of 130 pounds.