ABOUT THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN TELL that the best Thoroughbred in the world rooms and boards in one of the stalls of Barn 7 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Florida, is by the poem taped to the door of trainer Bill Mott's office. "Once in a lifetime/ It's said about horses like you," writes one Kristen Sharer. "But to you, that's nothing./You've more winning to do."
He's not particularly handsome, yet he gets Valentine's Day and get-well cards--and poems--from women of all ages. His breeding is nice though hardly impeccable--Mama was Solar Slew, a daughter of Seattle Slew, but Papa...