[5] Tiavanita failed to win a race but was a half-sister of Corrupt, who won the Great Voltigeur Stakes and started joint-favourite for the 1991 Epsom Derby.

Two furlongs from the finish he established an overall lead and ran on well in the closing stages to win by a neck from the strong-finishing Greenham Stakes winner Enrique, with Mujahid third.

He was never traveling well and appeared to be struggling three furlongs from the end of the race before finishing fifth of the ten runners, beaten more than seven lengths by the Aidan O'Brien-trained Saffron Walden.

[10] After a break of fifteen months, Island Sands returned to the racecourse in August 2000 in the Group Three Prix Quincey at Deauville, for which he was made 9/10 favourite.

Frankie Dettori attempted to make all the running on the colt, but he was overtaken in the closing stages and beaten one and a half lengths by the three-year-old filly Penny's Gold.

For his next appearance, Island Sands was dropped in class to run in a minor stakes race over one mile at Haydock Park Racecourse in May and won by eight lengths at odds of 4/11.

[15] He returned to top class racing in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot but after leading in the early stages he dropped away to finish last of the ten runners behind Medicean.