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The Jockey Club owns 4,800 acres, of which 2,800 acres are set out as training grounds for thoroughbred racehorses. Within the overall acreage there are three stud farms, twelve leasehold training establishments, two farming tenants, some 90 residential and commercial properties and other miscellaneous leasehold properties.

Traditionally its responsibilities were focused on forming and applying the Rules of Racing as well licensing jockeys, trainers and racecourses.

Today the bronze statue of the Derby winner Hyperion stands sentinel outside the Jockey Club building in Newmarket High Street.

And while the historic Club premises have moved with the times and are available for conferences and corporate and private entertainment the Jockey Club Rooms still provide a fascinating insight into the racing world of another age.

The Coffee Room is the oldest room and boats a wonderful collection of silhouettes caricaturing Newmarket’s racing personalities of the past.

The Steward’s Room was used for many a year to hear serious disciplinary cases and is noted for its horse-shoe shaped Steward’s table. People brought before the Stewards to answer charges stood on a strip of carpet inside the door. They were ‘on the carpet’. Soundproof doors and leather panelled walls were designed to frustrate would be eavesdroppers!