 In the summer of 2005, original owner Madeleine Paulson provided the Old Friends Equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Kentucky with a substantial gift to enable them to acquire the horse, bring him home from Japan, and look after him during his retirement years.On November 7, 2005, the seventeen-year-old Fraise died suddenly from a ruptured blood vessel in his abdomen.He was cremated and his remains were interred in the Old Friends Dream Chase Farm cemetery.