James G. Rowe Jr.

mechanical engineer and graduated from Fordham and Cornell universities.^[1] However, in 1913 he went to work for his father as an assistant and later became an assistant to Scott Harlan at Helen Hay Whitney's Greentree Stable where by the mid-1920s he had several 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. returned to work for Greentree Stable in the latter part of 1930, replacing Thomas W. Murphy.^[2]

U.S. Triple Crown races. He trained the 1928 Preakness Stakes winner Victorian,^[3] and in 1929 was the Leading trainer in the United States by earnings with $314,881 in purse money.^[4]

heart attack in October of that year.^[8] He was buried next to his father in Red Bank, New Jersey.^[9] One of five children, his brother, Belmont A. Rowe, who was also involved in horse racing, died at a young age in 1927.^[10]