jockey club

noun

1. 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.
2. 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

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of jockey club¹

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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