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6 unusual facts about The Jockey Club


Edward B. Cassatt

Edward Cassatt was a member of The Jockey Club and the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association.

Martha F. Gerry

In 1983, Martha F. Gerry, Allaire du Pont, and Penny Chenery became the first women to be admitted as members of The Jockey Club.

Philip H. Iselin

A member of The Jockey Club, Iselin and Amory L. Haskell headed a group of investors who founded the Monmouth Park Jockey Club in 1944 to build a new Thoroughbred horse racing facility in Oceanport, New Jersey.

The Jockey Club

Created in 1984, The Jockey Club Research Foundation was joined along with the Grayson Foundation, established in 1940 by George D. Widener, Jr., William Woodward, Sr. and John Hay Whitney, amongst others.

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William Woodward, Sr.

Woodward was elected to the United States Jockey Club in 1917 and served as its chairman from 1930 until 1950.



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Allaire du Pont

In 1983, Allaire du Pont, Martha F. Gerry, and Penny Chenery became the first women to be admitted as members of The Jockey Club.

Baron Fairhaven

He is a Justice of the Peace and Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, a Major in the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) and Senior Steward of the Jockey Club.

Francis Charles Lawley

With his career in ruins he moved to the United States in 1856, becoming a correspondent for The Times covering the American Civil War with the Confederate Army, and authored several books including The Bench and the Jockey Club and The Life and Times of the Druid, as well as contributing to magazines such as St Paul's Magazine.

Jockey Club

Before 2006, it was one of the three bodies which provided management for horse racing in the United Kingdom in conjunction with the British Horseracing Board (itself an offshoot of The Jockey Club) and the Horserace Betting Levy Board.