Dancing Brave
In the official International Classification for 1985, Bakharoff was the highest-rated two-year-old in Europe, one pound ahead of Huntingdale, and three pounds ahead of Bold Arrangement, Nomrood, Sure Blade and the leading filly Baiser Vole. The independent Timeform organisation, however, named Huntingdale as the best two-year-old with a rating of 132 ahead of Bakharoff on 130. In the following year he was given a rating of 124 by Timeform, sixteen pounds behind the top-rated Dancing Brave. In the International Classification, he was ranked the fifth-best colt in Europe over twelve furlongs behind Dancing Brave, Shahrastani, Bonhomie and Allez Milord.