Career
He trained 96 stakes race winners including Champions Hasty Road, Moccasin, Oil Capitol, and Stan, and led all North American trainers in purse winnings in 1953. Foreign nearly three decades, Harry Trotsek trained for Allie East. Reuben"s Hasty House Farm stable as well as for other prominent owners such as the Whitney family"s Greentree Stable and Lucille P. Markey"s Calumet Farm. Trotsek was widely respected for his development of young jockeys including such riders as Johnny Sellers, Kenny Church and John Rotz.
After fifty-seven years as a trainer, Harry Trotsek retired in 1988.
Known as a very patient trainer who got the most out of horses under his care, Harry Trotsek is noted for an interview in which he said that "Good horses, overcome all sorts of things—including their trainers.".
