LOUISVILLE — Thoroughbred trainer Bill Mott doesn’t want to go down in history as the guy who broke the Triple Crown. That wasn’t his goal last year when he skipped the Preakness with his Kentucky Derby winner, Sovereignty. He did not intentionally swing a sledgehammer into the walls of horse racing tradition.
“The Triple Crown, I think it’s fine the way it is,” Mott says. “But there’s so many things after. You’ve got some big purses, you’ve got some important races. And I think if you use those horses up in the Triple Crown, a lot of times they can’t make it to the end of the year.”
