Lots of positive news at Standardbred Retirement Foundation

Cream Ridge, NJ – October 17, 2022 – There is much going on at the Standardbred Retirement Foundation, (SRF). Just this week two horses SRF kept from slaughter went to homes with families of harness racing folks.

Here is Bacon Hill Bandit about to get a whole lotta love by such adorable little girls from the Baggitt family. The girls giggled saying they will never change his name from Bacon.

Top trainer, Jeff Cullipher, and his owner, Tom Pollack had two needing homes, Thebuckeyebullet N. This guy has more love than he can handle with an eleven-year-old girl!

Winsun Azar went to the beach in Barnegat, NJ to the home of a young retiree who will spoil him in her free time.

The big adoption news is on Killean Cut Kid, the $315,000 winner that was thought to have been euthanized due to an injury when his racehorse owner videoed his saying goodbye and then posted it on Face Book. Kid was found by SRF in a kill pen in Louisiana a week later. After 6 months with SRF he went to a home with a veterinarian.

A couple of years later she asked SRF to find him a home. Kid had some mild founder and SRF found that he couldn’t hold up to use under saddle. SRF has been paying for his care for many years. This past week he found a loving home.

SRF’s raffle to win $5,000 is in the works and SRF hopes to get the best of support ever this year to help with the 40% jump in the cost of hay, and grain. Each ticket to win is just $25. The drawing for the big winner is in early December.

The Elks of Millstone, NJ stepped up when Covid rattled its fundraising efforts in 2020 in an effort to keep the horses fed. It was a very concerning time for this 33-year-old organization. Today, the economy and Covid adoptions are presenting the same monumental financial issue. We are most grateful to the hard-working Elks for their wonderful support of hosting another fundraising golf outing. The timing was ideal, the weather was simply perfect! Five hundred twenty-five adoptions were made in 2021, and in spite of thorough screening, some “Covid adopters” were not prepared for the commitment to a horse.

This has put a strain on the number of horses with SRF, but these horses are safely back with us hoping for another loving home. This is part of the strong mission of SRF.

Pearl, a horse SRF took back into the program recently, had one home in her life since 1997. When follow-up was not being provided many years ago, SRF stepped in, and the mother of the adopter took over Pearl’s adoption.

From the Standardbred Retirement Foundation