Vaccarezza decides to stop training

Carlo Vaccarezza announced this week from South Florida that he is giving up his training career and will soon disperse his stable of about 40 horses to other trainers.

“I’ve just got too many other things going,” said Vaccarezza, 66. “It’s taking a toll on me.”

Through last weekend, Vaccarezza had won 101 races from 729 starters since he began training on his own in November 2013. His stable has earned $3,053,014. In the preceding years, he was best known as the owner and breeder of Little Mike, a multiple Grade 1 winner who earned more than $3.5 million.

Vaccarezza said he will continue pinhooking young horses and will continue to own horses, which will be spread among Chad Brown, Patrick Biancone, and Armando De La Cerda. Vaccarezza’s son Nick works for Brown.

Vaccarezza is involved in a variety of businesses in Florida, Kentucky, and Virginia. On Monday, he hosted a major fundraiser for the sixth straight year at his Boca Raton, Fla., restaurant on behalf of the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.

“I’ll still be around racing, just in different ways,” he said. “I love horses too much to get out completely.”