Racehorse Eldaafer, Companion Goats Arrive at Old Friends

The 2010 Breeders’ Cup Marathon winner has retired with his goats, Yahoo and Google.
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Eldaafer, winner of the 2010 Breeders' Cup Marathon, has been retired to Old Friends in Georgetown, Kentucky. 

The 9-year-old gelding, who suffered a career-ending suspensory injury in November, arrived at the Central Kentucky Thoroughbred retirement facility June 2 along with his inseparable companions, the goats Google and Yahoo.

On the track, Eldaafer lived up to his name, which translates as "the victorious."

Campaigned by several owners throughout his career, Eldaafer had developed a reputation early on for being very difficult. But he began to live up to his potential when he came under the patient eye of trainer Diane Alvarado. In his first start out of her barn, Eldaafer earned his first graded stakes win in the 2009 Brooklyn Handicap, going a mile-and-a-half on the dirt. He went on to make his first Breeders' Cup Marathon appearance later that year at Santa Anita Park where he finished seventh

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