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| Company type | Non-profit organisation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Horse racing |
| Founded | 1798 |
| Headquarters | Washington DC |
Key people | John Tayloe III Charles Carnan Ridgely |
| Products | Betting, lottery, sports |
The Washington Jockey Club was an American association in Washington, D.C. devoted to horse racing, founded in 1797. The club established its first racecourse four blocks from the Executive Mansion where it extended from 17th and 20th Streets and extending across Pennsylvania Avenue into Lafayette Park,[1] what is now the site of Decatur House at H Street and Jackson Place, crossing Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue to Twentieth Street, largely on the site of today’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.[2] The course was relocated in 1802 to the Holmead Farm two miles north of the Executive Mansion, to what is now Meridian Hill.[3]
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- ^ Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860, Laura Croghan Kamoie, University of Virginia Press, 2007, pg 119
- ^ Harper's Magazine, Volume 41, Frederick Lewis Allen, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Harper's Magazine Company, 1870, pg 97