Company type | Thoroughbred Racing Stable & Horse breeding Farm | ||
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Industry | Thoroughbred Horse racing | ||
Founded | 1914 | ||
Defunct | 1989 | ||
Headquarters | Red Bank, New Jersey | ||
Key people | Payne Whitney (owner 1914–1927) Helen Hay Whitney (owner 1927–1944) Joan & Jock Whitney (co-owners, 1944–1982) Trainers:
James G. Rowe, Jr. (1931) William Brennan (1932–1938) John M. Gaver, Sr. (1939–1977) John M. Gaver, Jr. (1978–1981) | ||
Divisions | Aiken, 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.