Jockey-Club de Paris the fashionable Grand Café. There, on 28 December 1895, a stylish crowd in the "Salon Indien" attended the public début of the Lumière brothers' invention, the cinematograph. The Jockey Club is directed by an annually-elected committee of a president, four vice-presidents and twenty-five members. New members are sponsored by two current members and must receive five-sixths of the members' votes. Under the patronage of the Jockey Club, the "Prix du Jockey Club" (1,500,000 euros) has been run at the Chantilly Racecourse (at the foot of the Château de Chantilly) on the first Sunday in June since 1836. The race at
Maryland Jockey Club growth of Baltimore as an economic center, the Maryland Jockey Club shifted its operations to "Central Course, Baltimore," about five miles southwest of the city on the Frederick Pike. In 1831, President Andrew Jackson became a member of the Maryland Jockey Club and races his very own White House Stable in meets under the name of his secretary, A. J. Donelson. In 1867 the site of present day Pimlico Race Course was incorporated for a track by the state by way of the Maryland General Assembly. In 1868 Saratoga Race Course in New York revived its racing program after its