jockey club

noun

an association for the regulation and promotion of thoroughbred horse racing, usually composed of racing officials and thoroughbred owners at a specific racetrack or in a particular region.
a section at a racetrack reserved for members of such an association, containing box seats, a restaurant, and sometimes rooms for social gatherings.

Jockey Club

the governing body that regulates and controls horse-racing both on the flat and over jumps

First recorded in 1765–75

Just this month, however, the Jockey Club admitted that its approach was no longer sufficient.

Note: This article has been corrected to note that Bogey passed away in 1957, four years before The Jockey Club opened in 1961.

This will certainly attract a bunch of newcomers, stir up pangs of nostalgia and help to put the Jockey Club back on the map.

They really eschewed the Jockey Club, preferring to hang out at Café Milano.

Club life is, as might be supposed, a distinctive feature, and the Jockey Club (entrance 300) is a triumph of luxury.

The old judge had been a director and a stockholder of the County Jockey Club for twenty years or more.

Bunch wrote describing a dinner which had been given the evening before, by the Jockey Club of Charleston.

Rooms were fitted up at the market for the use of the Jockey Club, which held its meetings there for many years.

No scale was prescribed for Newmarket, the conditions being left for settlement by the Jockey Club.

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