Teemto Pagalies / Legends Teemto Pagalies was a male Veknoid podracer pilot who participated in the Boonta Eve Classic race in 32 BBY . Biography . Considered handsome by Veknoid standards , Teemto Pagalies was exiled from his home planet after unwittingly attracting the attention of a beautiful Veknoid princess and resisting her attempts at matrimony . Subsequently , he became a fringer , desperately trying to find work in the Outer Rim Territories , but he could find solace nowhere . As a last resort ( some might say as a suicide attempt ) Pagalies tried Podracing , and he finally found his talent . He used an IPG - X1131 Longtail . When he came to Tatooine , he became infatuated with the Twi ' lek Ann Gella , a masseuse of Sebulba , but he could not get her to notice him . He also managed to buy a slave Rodian mechanic from Mars Guo called Pax Bonkik . Teemto Pagalies also attended Boles Roor ' s glimmik concert prior to the race , in which he found out that Mars Guo was hitting on Ann Gella , offering to take her away from the planet if he won the race . Frustrated , Pagalies told Sebulba about the affair and the notorious Dug took Guo out during the race in retaliation . In the 7 - Gee Lounge before the race , Pagalies , a notorious drunkard , had more than a few Juri juices . A professional hit man named Jym Lang had been hired by Jabba Desilijic Tiure to capture the unsuspecting , half - drunken Veknoid to be fed to the sarlacc . However , his life was saved by Jedi Master Qui - Gon Jinn , who purposely gave Lang the wrong coordinates of Teemto just moments before the bounty hunter had plotted to carry out the deed . Pagalies considered Anakin a " good kid " , and wished him well in the race . Despite his drunkenness , he kept close track of everyone involved in podracing , including Watto . Of the pilots who entered the Boonta Eve Classic , Pagalies ' Podracer boasted the longest engines , and he was confident that between this and the internal stabilizer ring built into his Pod , Pagalies ' Podracer was technologically superior and could not help but win . Unfortunately , his lofty theories were proved incorrect by a well - placed potshot from the Tusken Raider Orr Agg R ' orr in the Canyon Dune Turn , destroying his engines and sending his Pod whirling into the air . Pagalies sustained some injuries from the incident , including having his ears melted off , but recovered fairly quickly and soon returned to the races . In response to Pagalies ' accident , his family put a bounty on Orr Agg R ' orr ; 3 , 000 credits for the Tusken ' s death . This reward was claimed a few months later by the bounty hunter Jango Fett . Soon afterwards , Pagalies was racing in the Vinta Harvest Classic , apparently with healed ears ( or prosthetics ) . He made the mistake of taunting Sebulba in the starting blocks , and Sebulba reacted by injuring Pagalies ' s lower back before the race . Pagalies nevertheless finished this new race alive . He was later seen celebrating in the Seko Cantina , in Ryloth He came to be known for trying daring stunts and became a great crowd pleaser . In one such stunt , Pagalies lost one of his eyes in the resulting crash . Though he jumped around Podracing planets for a while , he eventually settled on the spice - mining world of Mon Gazza , where the long , open tracks were perfect for the feats he was able to coax out of his Podracer . Some time later , Pagalies won the Aleen Classic and planned to use the prize money to buy Ann Gella ' s freedom from Sebulba . But since he knew that his mechanic ' s brother , Trax Bonkik , was also owned by Sebulba , he used the money instead to buy Trax ' s freedom in the last moment ; therefore reuniting the brothers . In 8 ABY , Pagalies was working in the old Mos Espa Grand Arena ( now a swoop arena ) for Ulda , alongside his previous competitor Ody Mandrell . By this point he had also lost an arm . It was at the Arena that Pagalies was questioned by Leia Organa Solo about the truth behind her father ' s victory at the Boonta Eve Classic so many years previously . He was still alive in 11 ABY , when he sent Leia Organa Solo a copy of a video of Anakin Skywalker ' s win in the aforementioned race . Behind the scenes . Teemto Pagalies was created for the 1999 film , but first appeared in the film ' s by Terry Brooks . Conceptual art for the character , including bone structure , was created by concept artist Terryl Whitlatch . The character ' s surname is mispelled ' Pugales ' in Todd Strasser ' s 1999 Scholastic book , " . "