with George Odom up, George Odom made his debut as a trainer on August 30, 1906, at
Sheepshead Bay Race Track in
Brooklyn,
New York. He owned and trained a colt name Oraculum, who won the 1906 Hempstead Stakes for two-year-olds at
Jamaica Race Course. Odom also trained good runners such as
Nimba and
Tippity Witchet. Having won the 1904 Belmont Stakes as the jockey aboard
Delhi, when he won it as a trainer in 1938 with
Pasteurized he joined
James G. Rowe Sr. as the only ones to ever win that
American Classic both as a jockey and as a trainer. Following the formation of the
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, George Odom was part of the 1955 inaugural class of inductees. Married to Julie Murtha in 1902, in later years the Odoms made their home in
Jamaica, New York. A few weeks after his eighty-second birthday, George Odom died on July 29, 1964, at
Roosevelt Hospital in
Manhattan,
New York. Their son,
George P. "Maje" Odom, was also a trainer. ==References==