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Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation hosts a number of fund-raising events throughout the year. All of the proceeds from these events directly benefit our research efforts.
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Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation has no alliance with any one university, so the Foundation is free to fund the best research regardless of where it takes place. Since 1940, the Foundation has funded more than 437 specific research projects at the 48 universities listed on our Where the Dollars Go page.

The research today is helping recruit and train the researchers for tomorrow, giving extra impact from the Foundation's funding. Aside from such staff assistance, however, the Foundation does not pay the Principal Investigator's salary or other overhead, therefore directing the dollars right on the target of research.
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Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation is a leading, non-profit charitable organization that any horse lover can join.

We exist to help all horses by funding excellent and significant veterinary research at universities throughout North America and beyond and are committed to the advancement of horses of all breeds.

In The News

Friday, January 24, 2003

Open Session on Caterpillar Control

Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation has arranged a briefing open to all horsemen on some of the work being conducted at the University of Kentucky aimed at eliminating eastern tent caterpillars in the spring of 2003. Prof. Dan Potter, a noted entomologist, will address interested parties at an open meeting at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky sale pavilion in Lexington at 9 a.m., on Friday, Jan. 31.

Prof. Potter and his staff have been seeking improved ways to spray tent caterpillar egg masses and the alternative technique of injecting trees to kill caterpillars before or as they hatch.

"The timing is delicate, and we appreciate Prof. Potter's understanding that farm managers are facing decisions that must be made prior to definitive results of ongoing projects being possible," said Edward L. Bowen, president of Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, which is funding one of the specific caterpillar control projects at the University of Kentucky. "We look forward to helping provide the opportunity for horsemen to learn more about Prof. Potter's experiments and rationale.

"Any member of the public who has an interest is welcome at this open meeting."

Various projects have associated caterpillars with the pattern of Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome, which has seriously affected the horse industry in the last two springs.

Contact: Edward L. Bowen
(859) 224-2850