Cream Ridge, NJ – The Standardbred Retirement Foundation’s 12 Days of Giving campaign is a great way to help a horse especially in need during the holidays. Here is SRF’s holiday wish list for the 12 Days of Giving that starts Thursday (Dec. 13) and ends when the jolly one hitches the reindeer on December 24. More than 400 trotters and pacers are under SRF’s full care and expense, help is needed and gifts are tax-deductible:

1. Senior feed for a month for one of the very golden oldies – $125 each. There are more than 80 over the age of 24. They need as many friends as they can get.
2. Fill the hayloft for a month for the fillies and mares at the NJ location – $850
3. A pedicure (hoof trim) for one, $35, or a pedicure for one for 2019 (every 6-8 weeks) 7 times in 2019 – $245
4. Fill the hayloft for one month for the geldings that just love to guard the fillies and mares – $1,200
5. Retire one of our companions to your farm, a priceless gift for the horse, or sponsor one at our farm in any amount monthly. To sponsor a horse click here!
6. Because SRF now has a 35-percent increase in the number of horses it has under its expense and care, one Mac desktop computer is needed. Refurbished $950 (All of SRF’s computers are near ready for retirement).
7. SRF’s aging laptops have already been turned out to pasture. Two down, one left. If just one can be replaced it would be immensely helpful. – $1,100 refurbished.
8. Sponsor the favorite visit from the dentist, average is $50 a year. As horses age, their teeth change and many get points that makes it painful and difficult to eat.
9. A heavy-duty cross-cut shredder for privacy – $200
10. Become SRF’s special sponsor for the Elitlopp fund-raising trip in May – $4,000
11. SRF’s horses live long, healthy lives in fields with sheds, so preserving hay by using hay racks saves a great deal, and keeps the bossy horses from the sweet and meek so all can keep their bellies warm this winter. Six hay racks are needed – $249 each.
12. Winter Newsletter Sponsor. Keeping in touch with all is very important, sharing the accomplishments, enlightening all with facts, seeing the loving transformations of the great warriors in need, and highlighting those in awesome homes and new lives. Become a full or partial sponsor for $1,000-$4,000.

Need a gift giving idea? Sponsoring a horse is perfect.

Who needs another ugly sweater anyway? Any amount monthly, or one time, makes a great gift and if it totals more than $250 we will send a SRF sweatshirt to your favorite person. To sponsor a horse click here.

To make a tax deductible gift, please contact Tammy at 609-738-3255; you can also visit SRF’s website at AdoptaHorse.org/donate, please make a note in your payment, or mail to: SRF, 42 Arneytown-Hornerstown Rd., Cream Ridge, NJ 08514.

Thank you for changing their lives, there are very few people who have a love and respect for these noble horses. Please don’t assume someone else will help, theses horses are in need and every day SRF spends approximately $3,000 to keep them fed. Only 2 percent of SRF’s funding comes from harness racing organizations, more than 80 percent comes from people like you who care.

Thank you and we wish you happy holidays and the best of good luck in 2019