Early Life
Adams lived for a time in Connecticut where his father, Frank, was the manager and huntsman of the Watertown Hunt. The family moved to the San Diego, California area in the late 1930s. He rode his first winner in 1941 at age 14 at Agua Caliente in Mexico, where his mother Clara Adams, trained thoroughbreds for flat and steeplechase racing.
The family returned East in the mid-1940s, settling in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
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