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# Postcard: Coney Island Jockey Club At Sheepshead
- URL: https://bklyner.com/postcard-coney-island-jockey-club-at-sheepshead-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2010-07-26T15:30:23.000Z
- Updated: 2010-07-26T15:30:23.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: #API-Imported

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sheepsheadbay_postcard-600x449.jpg "sheepsheadbay_postcard")

While not really a postcard, I’m sticking this in with our new [“Postcard” series](/tag/postcard/), which saves images of the Sheepshead Bay-area that briefly appear on sites like eBay, never to be seen again.

The above is a 130-year-old wood engraving that’s been bevel-matted. It comes from an 1881 issue of Frank Leslie’s Weekly, an illustrated magazine that published from 1852 to 1922.

According to the [eBay seller](http://cgi.ebay.com/CONEY-ISLAND-SHEEPSHEAD-BAY-JOCKEY-CLUB-HORSES-1881-Art-/130413034421?ref=bklyner.com#ht%5F2142wt%5F911), who matted the antique engraving, text underneath the illustration says, “The June meeting of the Coney Island Jockey Club, at Sheepshead Bay — Taking the water-jump in the steep-chase, June 15th.”

The [Sheepshead Bay Race Track](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheepshead%5FBay%5FRace%5FTrack?ref=bklyner.com), home of the Coney Island Jockey Club, was one of the premiere horse-racing facilities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its entrance was on Ocean Avenue between Avenue X and Avenue Y.

Here’s the full illustration, without cropping and including caption:

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sheepsheadbay_postcard2-600x463.jpg "sheepsheadbay_postcard2")