[5] Following its formation at Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1955 Thomas J. Healey was part of the inaugural class of inductees to the U.S.
Known as Jack, the younger Healey worked as an assistant with his father and often was responsible for overseeing a string of racehorses competing at tracks outside their New York/New Jersey base.
[7] When the new Santa Anita Park opened in Arcadia, California in 1935, Jack Healey was sent with a string of horses by stable owner C. V. Whitney to compete there during the winter racing season.
After his father's retirement, he was hired by Harry & Jane du Pont Lunger of Wilmington, Delaware to take charge of their Christiana Stables.
Less than two months after he won the 1947 Modesty Stakes at Washington Park Race Track in Chicago,[8] Jack Healey fell ill and died at age forty-three on September 8, 1947, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland .