Greentree Stable

Greentree Stable
Company typeThoroughbred Racing Stable &
Horse breeding Farm
IndustryThoroughbred Horse racing
Founded1914
Defunct1989
HeadquartersRed Bank, New Jersey
Key people
Payne Whitney
(owner 1914–1927)
Helen Hay Whitney
(owner 1927–1944)
Joan & Jock Whitney
(co-owners, 1944–1982)
Trainers: Thomas W. Murphy (1928–1930)
James G. Rowe, Jr. (1931)
William Brennan (1932–1938)
John M. Gaver, Sr. (1939–1977)
John M. Gaver, Jr. (1978–1981)
DivisionsAiken, South Carolina
(training center)
Lexington, Kentucky
(breeding farm)

Greentree Stable, in Red Bank, New Jersey, was a major American thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm established in 1914 by Payne Whitney of the Whitney family of New York City. Payne Whitney operated a horse farm and stable at Saratoga Springs, New York with his brother Harry Payne Whitney, who also had a large stable of horses. Greentree Stable had a training base at Aiken, South Carolina, while Greentree Farm in Lexington, Kentucky was established in 1925 as its breeding arm.