Swoon's Son
Swoon's Son is an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. Foaled February 13, 1953 in Lexington, Kentucky, he was bred and raced by E. Gay Drake, owner of Lexington's Mineola Stock Farm and a charter member of the Thoroughbred Club of America.
Ridden by jockey David Erb in all but one of his twenty-two stakes race wins, Swoon's Son set track records at sprint distances at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington and at Chicago's Arlington Park plus at distances of around one mile on both turf and dirt at Chicago's Washington Park Race Track and the Hawthorne Race Course. He raced for four years from 1955 through 1958 before being retired to stud duty at Mineola Stock Farm in January 1959. Of his offspring, the most famous is the filly Chris Evert who too would become a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.
Swoon's Son died at Mineola Stock Farm in 1977 and is buried there in the farm's equine cemetery. In 2007, his racing career was honored with induction in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
