Anthony Margotta Jr. lost his everything — his marriage, a home overlooking the Inland Waterway in Florida, part ownership in a popular South Florida restaurant and a horse farm near Saratoga, N.Y.
New Jersey trainer Anthony Margotta stands in the winner's circle next to his first winning horse, Snicker Fritz, at Monmouth Park in 1984.This is a racetrack story — not a “Mom and Pop do the Derby” story or the kind of ruffles and flourishes that always follow the coronation of a Triple Crown winner. You’ve probably heard most of those. Happy endings are what keeps the media writing about horses, trainers and jockeys.
“They would take me to Monmouth Park, and I would run their bets to the window. I got 10 percent of their winnings. I was 18 and that money paid for my first car — a green Buick LeSabre. I was the best dressed 18-year-old in Bloomfield. “So, I get there and the first thing I see is his car — a brown Mercedes, and now I’m thinking Uncle Bob was right. So Crupi looks at me and he asks where I come from and he says: ‘Bloomfield? For crissakes. Bloomfield. They ain’t even got trees there and you want to be with horses? OK.’ And he shouts over to a guy who it hot walking a horse around the shed: `Give the kid the horse.’
“So now I’m looking to the outside to see his move. But he ain’t there. He’s coming on the inside and he wins. My family — except for my uncle and my dad — rush the winner’s circle. My dad is out on the edge taking pictures. My uncle, well, you know damned well he doesn’t want nobody taking his picture.’’Life is good. He is a success. The family is celebrating. In the excitement, he doesn’t see the Devil that is about to stalk him.
But he loses the appeal. He is out of racing and he’s drinking morning, noon and night. Using whatever he can get. His life became a yoyo. Detox, clean, 12 steps, clean, back on drugs again. “He was out the door. After he said what he felt he had to say, he never looked back, walked to the entrance to the Parkway and hitched a ride. We did not find the body for three days after he overdosed.”
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