To Honor and Serve

To Honor and Serve

To Honor and Serve

This beautiful horse is trained by Bill Mott. Bill has won training awards from across the country and is the youngest trainer ever inducted into the Hall of Fame at the age of 45. He has trained many champions and Horse of the Year. Bill has entered seven horses in the Kentucky Derby but the best his horses have finished is in eighth place. Bill says he likes the Derby and would like to win but winning is a function of timing. You have to have the right horse at the right level of performance at the right time, that time being the first weekend of May.

To Honor and Serve is owned by Live Oak Plantation's Charlotte Weber who is very excited about her horse's future. Charlotte is the granddaughter of Campbell Soup founder John Dorrance and serves on the Board of Trustees at the company. She also provided funding for the Met Museum's Charlotte C. Weber Galleries for the Arts of Ancient China. In 2005 she was awarded the Penny Chenery Most Distinguished Woman in Racing award. She was introduced to racing by family members. Live Oak Plantation owns a number of thoroughbreds that they spread out to a number of trainers, but Charlotte admits that Bill Mott is her favorite. Live Oak has a network of trainers including Christophe Clement, Bill Mott, Nick Zito, Seth Benzel and Marty Wolfson. Weber says she likes Mott's training philosophy of not rushing the horse and thinking of the horse first.

Weber's breeding operation has seen its offspring earn at least $1 million on the track each year for the last ten years. Mott gained his love for horses by working with his father, a veterinarian. His first winner, My Assets, was when Mott was just fifteen. In the mid 1970's Bill apprenticed under another Hall of Fame trainer named Jack Van Berg in Omaha. After that he went out on his own. Analysts say Bill trains for the long term and the "big picture."

Every winter and spring Bill trains his thoroughbreds at Payson Park in Florida where he takes his horses on trail rides. The emphasis there is training, fitness and letting the horses be horses. To Honor and Serve went there after winning the Remsen Stakes and it was there he found his long run stride. Recently, To Honor and Serve finished third at the Fountain of Youth by almost seven lengths. Bill had to remind himself that it was a prep race and that winning wasn't the goal. The rider, John Velasquez, was instructed to not "try to do too much" and to see what they might need to work on. John has compared To Honor and Serve to another horse, R Heat Lightning and told Mott that he has the right' horse.

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