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The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation is a charitable trust that provides, on a confidential basis, financial relief and assistance to needy members of the Thoroughbred industry and their families. Assistance includes financial aid, medication, surgical and hospital costs, therapeutic equipment, voice-recognition computers for quadriplegics and ...
The Jockey Club is the largest commercial horse racing organisation in the United Kingdom. It owns 15 of Britain's famous racecourses, including Aintree , Cheltenham , Epsom Downs and both the Rowley Mile and July Course in Newmarket , amongst other horse racing assets such as the National Stud , and the property and land management company ...
The Maryland Jockey Club is a sporting organization dedicated to horse racing, founded in Annapolis in 1743. It is chartered as the oldest sporting organization and is currently the corporate name of the company that operates Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland and Bowie Race Track in Bowie, Maryland, the latter of which ceased operations as a track in 1985 and now serves as a training ...
He is also independent non-executive director of the English Football League, [4] and a member of the Sports Board of major charity, NSPCC. [5] Until the end of 2019, Bazalgette was chief executive of The Jockey Club, which runs 15 UK racecourses including Cheltenham, Aintree, Epsom and Newmarket, and other assets such as The National Stud.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) is a broad-based coalition of American horse racing interests consisting of leading thoroughbred racetracks, owners, breeders, trainers and affiliated horse racing associations, charged with increasing the popularity of horse racing and improving economic conditions for industry participants. [1]
A current member of the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB), [1] he served as chairman of the CHRB for the years 2004, 2005 and 2009, [2] and is a former director of the Thoroughbred Owners of California. Harris has been a member of The Jockey Club since 1988. [3]
Knapp was a member of the board of directors and a vice-chairman of The Jockey Club and a director of the Saratoga Racing Association. In 1906, New York governor Frank W. Higgins appointed him chairman of the New York State Racing Commission.
Leung became the interim director of the School of Public Health, [38] after the former director, Keiji Fukuda, retired in 2021. [39] Leung resigned as dean in November 2021 to succeed Leong Cheung at the Hong Kong Jockey Club as the executive director (charities and community). He joined the Hong Kong Jockey Club on 1 August 2022. [40] [41]