Anthony Quartarolo

Machismo’s trainer, Anthony Quartarolo, trained Standardbreds before he became involved with Thoroughbreds. He began his career as an assistant at Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island in the 1960s, moving to California in the mid-1970s to continue to train and drive.

In the 1980s Quartarolo returned to the East Coast and launched his most successful decade of Standardbred racing. His trainee Speed Merchant trotted his way to nearly $500,000 in earnings, winning several stakes at Roosevelt, Freehold, the Meadowlands and elsewhere in 1984 and setting a track record at Roosevelt.

When Roosevelt shut down in 1988, Quartarolo shifted his attention to Thoroughbreds. After a few years in New Jersey as an assistant to trainer Juan Serey, Quartarolo went out on his own, saddling his first horses in 1993. He made his way in the business, mostly in claiming races, winning 75 races and purses totaling more than $1 million from 1996-2000. His best result was C. C. Gold’s win in the 1997 Charles Staats Memorial Stakes at Delaware Park.

Following the death of C. C. Gold’s owner, Michael Parisi, in 2003, Quartarolo stepped away from training and ran his own dry-cleaning delivery service in Delaware. He returned to training in 2010.

In 2014, Ron Paolucci – the “Loooch” behind Loooch Racing Stables – employed Quartarolo for the first time, sending him Global Power in advance of the Jaipur (G3) at Belmont Park. Loooch had purchased the horse from Gary and Mary West in April 2012. The horse would finish third in the Jaipur at odds of 60-1. Quartarolo continues to train some of Loooch’s stable.

Quartarolo was born January 16, 1947, in Passaic, New Jersey. He grew up in nearby Glen Rock, across the street from a veterinarian who kept a few horses he allowed the youngster to ride.

Quartarolo and his wife, Alison, has two children: daughter Ashley, a financial consultant who co-owns Machismo and is learning to be her father’s assistant, and son Colton.