The Maryland Jockey Club is a sporting organization dedicated to horse racing, founded in Annapolis in 1743.

It is chartered as the oldest sporting organization and is currently the corporate name of the company that operates Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland and Bowie Race Track in Bowie, Maryland, the latter of which ceased operations as a track in 1985 and now serves as a training center for Thoroughbred racehorses.

The exact dates, start times and number of races carded during these meeting were not uniform in part due to interference from the French and Indian War.

Future president of the United States George Washington attended the Maryland Jockey Club race meeting frequently in 1762 going to the track for almost every carded event.

In the autumn of 1775 the Maryland Jockey Club postponed all racing, due to the break out of war, upon the recommendation of Congress, "in consequence of report upon the state of the country.

In 1831, President Andrew Jackson became a member of the Maryland Jockey Club and raced his very own White House Stable in meets under the nom de course A. J. Donelson, which was actually the name of his private secretary.

In 2011, the Stronach Group acquired full control of Maryland Jockey Club assets And operations.