 He was sired by Skywalker, that won the 1986 Breeders' Cup Classic.Nahem began racing Bertrando in a three-way partnership with Marshall Naify's 505 Farms of Lexington, Kentucky, and Gus Headley, son of the horse's trainer, Bruce Headley.En route to being voted California Champion two-year-old colt, Bertrando won the important Del Mar Futurity and the Grade I Norfolk Stakes, one of the final preparatory races for two-year-olds going into the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.