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Definition of Jockey club
1. Noun. A club to promote and regulate horse racing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jockey Club
Literary usage of Jockey club
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Supreme even over the jockey club is a State Racing Commission of three, ...
While the jockey club ¡s only recognized by law in its native state, ..."
2. American Book Prices Current by Katherine Kyes Leab, Daniel J Leab (1907)
"jockey club, Fashionable Society, The jockey club or Sketch of Manners of the
Age, 3 vols. [Also] The Female jockey club, i vol. Lond., 1792-94. ..."
3. A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico by Edith O'Shaughnessy (1916)
"VII Huerta visits the jockey club—Chihuahua falls—"The tragic ten days" —Exhibition
of gunnery in the public streets—Mexico's "potential Presidents"—"The ..."
4. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 by John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott (1884)
"A jockey club was formed in 1767, and the four days of racing were given under
... The jockey club, in 1773, offered the Whim plate and the Ladies' plate to ..."
5. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1899)
"... Lieven hostile to the Duke—The Catholic Question—jockey club Dinner at St.
James's—Lord Lyndhurst—Sir Robert Adair — Fox and Burke—Fox and Pitt—The Lord ..."
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