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.
First recorded in 1765–75
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Its jockey club had accumulated operating losses of over $311 million, the Macau News Agency earlier reported.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
Its jockey club runs various gambling activities and is the city’s major donor of many charity works.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
Then he would face whatever charges were against him, and seek restoration from the jockey club, though it took his lifetime.
From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by Ferguson, W. B. M. (William Blair Morton)
Talk of eau-de-cologne, and millefleurs, and jockey club!
From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville
I saw a group of fast youths come out of the jockey club, black from hat to boots, with jet studs and sleeve-buttons.
From Castilian Days by Hay, John
The Jockey Club, a thoroughbred registry and leading industry group, brought in consultants from McKinsey to help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The Jockey Club has told the BBC there was currently no planned inspection.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
Stuart S. Janney III, chairman of the nonprofit Jockey Club, is clueless and tone deaf and has run the sport into the ground, Repole says.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
In January, the city’s government said it would terminate its contract with the Macao Jockey Club in April.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
Invariably, hundreds of people fanned out around the track apron to watch the Triple Crown winner, who had come to Pimlico after crushing the field in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
