Bandola was part of a "family" with considerable significance. She was a full sister to the sire of significance, Bask, and to Arfa, who was the dam of Argos, an important sire in Great Britain for Patricia Lindsay. Her 3/4 sister Bachantka (by Wielki Szlem) had been imported to the United States in 1961 by Varian Arabians, where she was a Top Ten champion and major foundation mare for the Varian program. Her grandsire, Ofir, was included in the group of horses taken during the Soviet Invasion of Poland. Ofir was of the desert-bred stallion Kuhailan-Haifi who was imported from the Jauf region of the Arabian Peninsula by Prince Roman Sanguszko of the Gumniska Stud.