SRF bids farewell to a champion

Cream Ridge, NJ -12/15/2023 – The Standardbred Retirement Foundation, (SRF), for the past six years, has provided a well-deserved retirement to the $817,000 harness racing winner who never stopped giving until 2017. For 13 years, Swingin Glory raced all along the Eastern seaboard and Midwest with 325 starts, 67 wins, 48 second-place and 39 third-place finishes. He was a multiple stakes and late closer champion.

His full life went from racing until May of 2008 to being used as a stud. We were told that he didn’t stand commercially in the racing industry, but when SRF found him at the Sugar Creek Livestock auction there was a joke that he was the sire of many in Indiana and Ohio. Likely his babies are working in the rural area still. Swingin Glory is a little guy so that is perplexing. Workhorses are usually of a larger stature.

Sugar Creek Livestock had Swingin Glory registered in a sale. At his age, it was highly unlikely that he would be purchased for anything other than for slaughter. A past owner paid to release him. He arrived in NJ where a veterinarian gifted the service to geld the good-feeling guy. After recovery, SRF took him in under its care and expense. One other past owner of his seventeen made a gift along the way to help the son of Raging Glory.

Swingin Glory had his own paddock with a friend close by since coming to SRF. On the morning of December 14, 2023 he was humanely euthanized at the age of 29.

Through general donations and fundraising events SRF managed his care and expenses since 2017.  Yesterday, on the day Swingin Glory passed, NY State’s Governor signed the Bill to prevent the sale of horses if the seller is aware that the horse will be slaughtered.

SRF has more than 500 trotters and pacers under its care and expense. Swingin Glory was one that stands out because of his earnings, but every horse deserves such a chance. SRF offers a way for owners and trainers to make a simple and tax-deductible gift of any size to SRF while their horses are racing.

Swingin Glory was foaled on 4/12/1994. He was one of the very few fortunate ones given dignity and life.

From the Standardbred Retirement Foundation