The directors of Grayson-Jockey Club Research Fundation have awarded a total of $825,389 to fund a total of 23 research projects during the year 2000.

The amount represents a new record for the Foundation. The board approved funding for the second year of 13 projects begun last year and added 10 new projects. The allocation brings the Foundation’s total funding since 1983 to $8.1 million for 151 projects at 27 universities.

The new projects touch a variety of the problems that affect horses of various breeds and uses. They include efforts to prevent colic through better understanding of diet and diet changes; a Harvard effort toward protection against foal pneumonia; a project developing use of blood markers to alert of impending fractures; and projects on laminitis and equine protozoal myeloencephalitis—problems the Foundation has been supporting for some years