Jockey Club

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The Jockey Club is the ultimate authority in England for all questions about horse racing .

Jockey Club building in Newmarket

The club was founded in Newmarket in 1750 . It was made up of about 50% of aristocratic horse lovers and about 50% of experts (horse breeders, race track operators, riders). What both groups had in common was their social background and a love of racing. The association not only served Pierre de Coubertin as a model for the establishment of the International Olympic Committee . but also various other jockey clubs , such as those of Austria or France.

The tasks of the Jockey Club in Newmarket include setting and monitoring the racing rules at the national level. He also grants the licenses for trainers, jockeys , horses and owners, sets the standards for the racing fields, monitors the medical care of the horses and takes care of all questions related to doping . A large part of the British Center for Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket is also owned by the Jockey Club.

To be a Stewart of the Jockey Club is considered a special social honor in England.

Its German equivalent was the Union-Klub before the Second World War ; today it is the directorate for thoroughbred breeding and racing .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Black: The Jockey Club and its founders: in three periods . London: Smith, Elder 1891.
  2. ^ Arnd Krüger : Coubertin and the Compromise of the Foundation of the International Olympic Committee. J.-F. Loudcher, C. Vivier et al. (Ed.): Sport et Idéologie - Sport and Ideology . Besançon: ACE-SHS 2004, Vol. 2, 453 - 463.
  3. ^ General Secretariat of the Jockey Club for Austria (Ed.): Racing calendar for Austria . Vienna: Beck 1884–1937.
  4. ^ Joseph Antoine Roy: Histoire du Jockey Club de Paris. Paris, M. Rivière, 1958.