John Slidell, Jockey Club Vice President
This file appears in: Creation of the Eclipse Course: Horse Racing comes to New Orleans
Portrait courtesy of SMU, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library
This file appears in: Creation of the Eclipse Course: Horse Racing comes to New Orleans
Creation of the Eclipse Course: Horse Racing comes to New Orleans
As late as the 1830’s, the former French and Spanish colony of Louisiana still lagged far behind in the British sport of thoroughbred racing, which had been flourishing on the East Coast for the last…