Hittite Glory was a "powerful, round-bodied, muscular and most impressive looking"[2] bay horse with no white markings bred in England by Cleaboy Farms.
[6] Hittite Glory made his debut in the Berkshire Stakes over six furlongs on firm ground at Newbury Racecourse in June and finished fifth, twenty lengths behind the Clive Brittain-trained African Winner.
After winning a six furlong maiden race on softer ground on his next appearance, the colt was moved up in class for the Richmond Stakes and finished sixth of the nine runners behind Stand to Reason.
In the Gimcrack Stakes at York Racecourse in August Hittite Glory's pretensions to high class were apparently exposed: he swerved exiting the starting stalls and never looked likely to win, finishing eleventh of the fourteen runners behind Music Boy and the somewhat unlucky Stand to Reason.
In a rough finish, Durr drove the colt through a narrow gap on the inside, hampering Royal Boy in the process, and was then in turn bumped by Duke Ellington.
In the Poule d'Essai des Poulains over 1600 metres at Longchamp Racecourse on 25 April he finished last of the eleven runners behind Red Lord and thereafter reverted to sprint distances.
He returned to England for the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in June and produced his best performance of the season, staying on well after being outpaced in the early stages to finish third behind Lochnager and Realty.
[9] There was no International Classification of European two-year-olds in 1975: the official handicappers of Britain, Ireland and France compiled separate rankings for horses which competed in those countries.
[2] In the following year he was rated 119 by Timeform, who commented in their annual Racehorses of 1976 that the colts moderate performances had left him with a "badly tarnished reputation" but said that "on his day he was a very good horse".