Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty trained by Mobridge native Bill Mott
Second Derby title for Hall of Fame horse trainer
A Mobridge native trained the horse that won the 2025 Kentucky Derby.
It was the second Kentucky Derby victory for Bill Mott, 71, who started training horses when he was 15 and won the South Dakota Futurity before he graduated from high school.
His horse Sovereignty edged the favorite Journalism on Saturday, May 3 on a muddy track at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
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