Bill Mott has scaled the heights of racing over 40-plus years, from overseeing the mighty Cigar to becoming the youngest trainer to be inducted to the Hall of Fame to winning the Kentucky Derby and 15 Breeders’ Cup events.

Bill earned the Eclipse Awards as outstanding trainer in 1995, 1996, 2011, and again in 2023 when he notched three Breeders’ Cup wins including the Breeders’ Dirt Mile with eventual Horse of the Year Cody’s Wish.

Mott has won nine training titles at Saratoga, 10 titles at Belmont Park, nine at Gulfstream Park and five at Keeneland. For many years he was the all-time winningest trainer at Churchill Downs, and he set the record for number of victories at a single Churchill Downs meeting, 54, during the 1984 spring meet. He stables there in Louisville and New York for most of the year, and in South Florida in the winter.