Fraise was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1992 Breeders' Cup Turf.
15 Facts About Fraise
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Fraise was sired by Strawberry Road, the 1983 Australian Horse of the Year, acquired by Paulson in 1986.
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Fraise, which is French for strawberry, was raced by Madeleine Paulson, who won the colt on a wager with her husband by beating him in a golf game.
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Fraise got his first Grade I win in the Sword Dancer Handicap at Saratoga Race Course on August 8,1992, setting a course record while winning by four lengths.
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Fraise followed this up with a fourth-place finish in the Man o' War Stakes and a second place in the Turf Classic Invitational, both at Belmont.
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Fraise was up against Sky Classic, the even-money favorite from Canada, Subotica, that year's winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, and two Epsom Derby winners, Dr Devious and Quest for Fame.
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Fraise was in the last place for most of the race, then started his move on the far turn with jockey Patrick Valenzuela guiding him through traffic.
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Fraise finished the year in the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes, in which he was disqualified to second for interference.
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Fraise returned to racing at age five, starting with a win in the Grade II Pan American Handicap at Gulfstream Park in Florida.
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Fraise then suffered a splint injury while finishing third in the San Juan Capistrano at Santa Anita and missed several months.
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Fraise ended the year in the Grade I Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes at Hollywood Park Racetrack in California, winning by a stakes record six lengths.
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At age six, Fraise raced seven times with one win in the Pan American Handicap before his breeding rights were sold to Japanese interests.
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Fraise finished his career with a tenth-place finish in the 1994 Japan Cup.
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On November 7,2005, the seventeen-year-old Fraise died suddenly from a ruptured blood vessel in his abdomen.
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Fraise was cremated and his remains were interred in the Old Friends Dream Chase Farm cemetery.