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Doctor Aloha, a
son of Polish
Numbers, was
foaled in Virginia in 1998, bred here by Marvin Little Jr. Every time Little breeds a horse, he must hope he has another Hansel. That’s the Virginia-bred that brought Little his biggest fame as a breeder: a son of Woodman, Hansel won the 1991 Preakness and Belmont Stakes, earned $2.9 million and wassent off to stud when his racing career ended.
But Doctor Aloha was no Hansel.
Like so many other horses, he didn’t have superstar ability, nor potential as a sire, earning just $41,930 on the racetrack during a career that lasted three years. With arthritis in a front ankle, he couldn't even make it as a riding horse. Unlike Hansel he had little or no economic value when his racing career was over.
In some cases, that means a trip to the slaughterhouse,a ghasdy fate that shouldn’t befall any horse. But Doctor Aloha was one of the lucky ones. Thanks to some caring owners, the Pewter Stable, and the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. Doctor Aloha has come home. He’s living a carefree life these days at die TRF’s Byrd Hill Farm, run by Ted and Polly Bance in Palmyra. He is one of more than 160 retired rhoroughbreds that the TRF currendy cares for at its farms and satellite facilities in Virginia.
“Doctor Aloha is fat, and he is happy,” Polly Bance said, who has had Doctor Aloha since shordy after his racing career in 2002 and he was turned over to the TRF' by owner Pewter Stable.
“He was in a smaller herd, and he got so fat it looked like he was in foal. So I put him in a larger herd of 27 horses and he is right at the top of the heap. He’s very outgoing. He is friendly and sassy.”
There was a time when horses like Doctor Aloha had nowhere to go after they were finished racing. That started to change in the early 1980s when Monique Koehler, a New Jersey advertising executive with no connection to the racing industry, learned that
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