James G. Rowe, Jr.
Horse trainer, Deceased Person
– 1931
Who was James G. Rowe, Jr.?
James Gordon "Jimmy" Rowe, Jr. was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.
The son of U.S. Hall of Fame trainer James G. Rowe, Sr., he initially planned to become a mechanical engineer and graduated from Fordham and Cornell universities. However, in 1913 he went to work for his father as an assistant and by the mid-1920s had several Greentree Stable horses under his exclusive conditioning. In 1929, he took over from his father as head trainer for Harry Payne Whitney's Brookdale Farm. After Whitney died, James Rowe, Jr. went to work for Helen Hay Whitney's Greentree Stable in the latter part of 1930, replacing Thomas W. Murphy.
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- Also known as
- James Rowe, Jr.
- Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Cornell University
- Died
- Oct 21, 1931
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on July 23, 2013
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