Jockey Club

(jok'e-.) (Sports.) The name ofa celebrated corporation of noblemen and gentlemen, established in England in 1727, to control the national sport of horse-racing by enacting laws and regulations founded on honor and justice, and to decide all disputed cases which came within its cognizance as the great tribunal of the Turf. Within the last quarter of a century similar institutions have sprung up in other countries; thus there is the American Jockey Club,the French Jockey Club, . [s. 504]