Having now jfinished the calendar of races run under the sanction 

 of the South Carolina Jockey Club, from its formation to the present 

 season, ^e will proceed to make a few remarks upon the history of the 

 Club, and its prospects, by which will be seen its value and importance 

 to our community in many respects, but especially in a social point of 

 view. 



The South Carolina Jockey Club is a chartered association, and the 

 oldest Jockey Club in the United States. It numbers among its mem- 

 . bers, and has always had on its list, some of the most distinguished citi- 

 zens of our own and other States. 



" Non advenre, neque passim collecta populi colluvies." 



Honorary membership has been conferred on five occasions : 



J. E. McPherson, Esq., many years President of the Club, was elected 

 an honorary member in 1834 ; 



Richard Tattersall, Esq., of Hyde Park, London, in 1837 ; 



Richard Singleton, Esq., having been a member of the Club half a 

 century, was elected an honorary member in 1850 ; 



John B. Irving, in 1851, had the same high honor voted to him 

 having served as Secretary twenty-five years ; and 



Col. John S. Ashe was elected in 1856. 



The income of the Club is very large, being upwards of $10,000. It 

 has had, at some meetings, as many as two hundred members. The 

 annual subscription of each member now is -140 ; formerly it was $60. 

 In adrlition to the subscriptions, it derives an income from real estate, 

 bonds, and bank stock. 



From the ways and means thus at its disposal, its purses are not only 

 large, but the Club is able to extend a becoming degree of hospitality to 

 all respectable visitors, and friends of the Turf, from other States and 

 countries ; and notwithstanding its very heavy annual disbursements, it 

 is so well managed, it continues in an exceedingly thriving condition, 

 going on " prospering and to prosper." 



It may be profitable to other Clubs to know, and therefore we state it 

 for the benefit of all concerned, that the thriving condition of the South 

 Carolina Jockey Club is attributable solely to its abandonment of the 

 proprietorship system ! 



