Tags: Race Horse.
Bates Motel (May 17 1979 – October 12 2004) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was voted an Eclipse Award in 1983 for American Champion Older Male Horse. Bred by Jacqueline Getty Phillips and her son Michael D. Riordan Bates Motel was foaled in Kentucky but was sent by his breeder/owners in October 1980 to the annual auction at Newmarket in England.