As a three-year-old in 2000, the colt won the Sandown Classic Trial and the Dante Stakes then ran second by a length to Sinndar in The Derby.

In the Eclipse Stakes he suffered a muscular problem and finished fourth to winner, Giant's Causeway.

Godolphin gave Saeed bin Suroor the job of conditioning Sakhee for his four-year-old racing campaign.

In his final start of 2001, Sakhee was sent to the United States to compete in the 2001 Breeders' Cup Classic at New York's Belmont Park.

[4] The most successful of his offspring were Sakhee's Secret, Presvis and Tin Horse (Poule d'Essai des Poulains).