Greentree Stable

Greentree Stable
Company type	Thoroughbred Racing Stable &; Horse breeding Farm
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: 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)
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.

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