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Coney Island Jockey Club held its first meeting 

 at Sheepshead Bay. Brighton Beach was to clash 

 with the Coney Island Jockey Club, but it was 

 recognized by the best class of people that the 

 Coney Island Jockey Club was to be the resort of 

 fashion. 



It might be well here to mention the names of 

 those public-spirited men who were responsible 

 for the organization of what is now the greatest 

 of all the American jockey clubs, and which bids 

 fair to be that one which will set the standard for 

 the American turf for many years to come. The 

 original names were : — 



H. C. Babcock P. Lorillard, Jr. 



J. H. Bradford James V. Parker 



A. J. Cassatt A. Belmont Purdy 



C. Fellows A. Wright Sanford 



John G. Heckscher F. A. Schermerhorn 



James R. Keene Richard Peters 



A. Belmont, Jr. George P. Wetmore 



General Butterfield Skipworth Gordon 



Robert Center Chris. R. Robert 



F. W. Griswold Harry Alexandre 



Leonard W. Jerome William R. Travers 



J. G. K. Lawrence William K. Vanderbilt . 



From this list, Leonard W. Jerome, whose con- 

 nection with the turf had been one extending 



