Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott said he will have five stalls at the 2022-23 Oaklawn Park meeting that is scheduled to begin Dec. 9.
The allotment coincides with Mott's son, Riley, going out on his own last month after working approximately eight years for his father. Riley is scheduled to have a 25-horse stable this season at Oaklawn. All horses for Bill and Riley Mott are to be housed in the same barn, which is named after 1983 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner and Canadian Hall of Famer Sunny's Halo.
"I think having him here and having stalls here will make it easy for me," Bill Mott said while at Oaklawn last week to spend Thanksgiving with his son. "He can help me out a little bit, if I ship something in."
Riley won the first race of his young training career Nov. 10 with Unifying at Churchill Downs for owners Sheri Greenberg, Staghawk Stables, Tom Reiman, and Ronald Johnson. Unifying had previously started for the elder Mott.
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Bill, based in South Florida during the winter, was Oaklawn's leading trainer in 1986 with 35 victories. Both Bill and Riley have horses for prominent owner/breeder Frank Fletcher, a resident of North Little Rock, Ark.
Bill Mott sent Frank's Rockette, Fletcher's millionaire female sprinter, to Oaklawn to win the $150,000 American Beauty Stakes in 2021.
