Wikipedia said: 競走馬名「エルコンドルパサー」はペルー民謡「コンドルは飛んでいく」に由来する。渡邊が慶應義塾体育会ソッカー部在籍時に中学2年次までペルーに住んでいた先輩がおり、その先輩を尊敬していたことから、父名の一部「マンボ」から「南米の音楽」と解釈を広げ命名された。渡邊の所有馬では2頭目の「エルコンドルパサー」であり、初代はデビュー前の骨折で予後不良となっていた。
The race horse name "El Condor Pasa" is derived from the Peruvian song of the same name. Watanabe, back when he was a member of the soccer club of the Keio Gijuku school, had a senpai up to middle school that he respected who lived in Peru, expanded the interpretation of the name "mambo", which was part of the name of the horse's sire, to mean "South American music" and thus was given the name. This was not the first horse that Watanabe owned that he named "El Condor Pasa", however, but the first horse to be given the name was euthanized prior to its debut after suffering a broken leg.
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