Grayson Jockey Club

The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation will honor Mrs. Lucy Young Hamilton with the Dinny Phipps Award, the organization announced Wednesday. The award, created by Ambassador Earle Mack to honor individuals who have demonstrated dedication to equine health, will be presented at a cocktail reception hosted by the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation in Lexington, Kentucky, at The Apiary on October 14, 2025. Tickets are available here. Mrs. Hamilton created the Storm Cat Career Development Award in 2006 to introduce young researchers to equine sciences. The award is named in honor of...

Long-time racing journalist and historian Edward Bowen passed away Monday, Jan. 20 at his home in Versailles, Kentucky at the age of 82, according to the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation. Bowen was the Blood-Horse Editor-In-Chief from 1987-1992. He was hired at Grayson in 1994, and spent 24 years as the president of the foundation, during a career in racing and journalism which spanned over 60 years. "Ed's passing is a huge loss in so many ways," said Jim Gagliano, president and chief operating officer of The Jockey Club. "His encyclopedic...

The Jockey Club has released its 2024 Industry Impact Report. The report, which has traditionally been released at The Jockey Club's annual Round Table Conference in August, details how at least $7 million will be used in the coming year to support initiatives ranging from equine safety and aftercare to industry promotion and national and international collaboration, according to a Tuesday press release from the organization. "The initiatives supported by The Jockey Club, together with others or wholly backed by The Jockey Club, have increased substantially in the last decade...

The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation recently issued a special call for research proposals to address vaccines for Equid Alphaherpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) and Equine Herpesvirus Myeloencephalopathy (EHM) and after a thorough review process by the foundation's veterinarian advisory committee, two research proposals were selected for funding. The projects, led by Gisela Soboll Hussey of Michigan State University and Bettina Wagner of Cornell University, aim to develop novel nucleic acid vaccines to protect horses from EHV-1/EHM and EHV-4. Soboll Hussey's project is titled, "Use of nucleic acid vaccines to protect from EHV-1/EHM,"...

The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation has authorized expenditure of $1,498,077 to fund 12 new projects and nine continuing projects at 13 universities, as well as two career development awards in the coming year. The 2023 slate of research brings Grayson's totals to more than $34.1 million to underwrite 426 projects at 45 universities since 1983. "The Grayson Foundation is dedicated to tackling a variety of equine health challenges, which is clearly reflected in our selected projects for this year," said Jamie Haydon, president of Grayson. "Our research projects and career...

A new study published this week in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and funded by the Grayson Jockey Club Foundation, has found that horses racing on Lasix were 62% more likely to die within three days of racing than were horses running without the diuretic. Fatalities due to catastrophic musculoskeletal injury were not included in the study. The use of Lasix was one of 15 risk factors identified in the report. The study, relying on information from the Equine Injury Database, examined starts made by 284,387 Thoroughbreds...

The 10th Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit, scheduled for Wednesday, June 22 in the Keeneland sales pavilion, will be available via livestream through links on the Grayson Jockey Club and The Jockey Club websites. The event is co-hosted by The Jockey Club. The previous summit was held in June 2020 as a virtual webinar series due to COVID-19. The event will start at 8:20 a.m. ET and last until approximately 5 p.m. ET. It is free and open to the public. Topics on the agenda include an update...