Twenty Grand won the Kentucky Derby, was second in the Preakness which was run before the Derby that year, and won the Belmont Stakes. Rowe Jr. lived for only a few months after these victories, dying at age 42 of a heart attack in October of that year.
He was buried next to his father in Red Bank, New Jersey. One of five children, his brother, Belmont A. Rowe, who was also involved in horse racing, died at a young age in 1927.