James G. Rowe, Jr.

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James G. Rowe, Jr. was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

The son of U.S. Hall of Fame trainer, James G. Rowe, Sr., 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.

James Rowe Jr. Trained the 1928 Preakness Stakes winner Victorian, and in 1929 was the leading trainer in the United States with 25 wins and $314,881 in purse money. His most famous horse was the Hall of Fame inductee, Twenty Grand, with whom he won the 1931 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.


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