Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, Inc.

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We offer several programs that allow you to contribute to equine research in your own unique way and double the impact of your contribution.

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.
Research Grants
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.
Who We Are
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

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Lunger Estate Makes Major Contribution to Equine Research

The Jane duPont Lunger Residual Charitable Trust recently made a $250,000 contribution to Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, Inc., which funds veterinary research specifically on the horse. Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation has funded 200 projects for more than $12 million at 32 universities since 1983.

"Mrs. Lunger typified a sporting love of racing and of the horse throughout her career," said Edward L. Bowen, president of the foundation, "and we are very grateful to her family, and trustees of her estate, for this extraordinary gift. We particularly appreciate the support of her daughter Annie and her husband, Richard I. G. Jones, in the decision to provide for equine research with such generosity."

Mrs. Lunger created Christiana Stable with her late husband, Harry Lunger, in 1937, and raced a series of prominent horses for many years, until her death in 2001. The 1989 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and two-time Eclipse Award winner Go for Wand was perhaps Christiana's most famous homebred. She was a daughter of the stable's distinguished mare Obeah, which won consecutive runnings of the Delaware Handicap in 1969 and 1970. Smart, Thinking Cap, Endine, Salem, Cyane, and Light Hearted were among other prominent Christiana runners.

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