Mourinho's team are two points behind leaders Arsenal and level on points with City after Branislav Ivanovic's goal gave Chelsea a 1-0 win.
"The title race is between two horses [Arsenal and Manchester City] and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump," said Mourinho.
"Maybe next season we can race."
The victory means Chelsea became the first team to do the double over Manchester City in the Premier League since Everton in 2010-11.
And it was a deserved result for the visitors, who hit the woodwork three times in the match as they continually caught out Manuel Pellegrini's side on the counter-attack.
However, despite the impressive performance and result, Mourinho refuses to state that his side are genuine title contenders this season.
"I don't agree we are title contenders," said the 51-year-old Portuguese. "We are a team in evolution but this is the kind of performance that helps a team grow up a little tactically and mentally. It was fantastic.
"We have beaten the best team, Manchester City, twice but they are the best team. I am not saying we are better than them but today we were the best team.
"We do better in these big games because we love it. We love the big games and when you love it maybe you feel an extra motivation.
"It's not our responsibility or objective to do that [win the league]. Our objective is to build the team. Some managers, some clubs because of the nature, their DNA, they say two, three, five years.
"I want to start the next pre-season in the summer and say this season we are going to win the league. This season I can't."
Mourinho also revealed the final words of inspiration to his team before they took to the field at Etihad Stadium came from masseur Billy McCulloch rather than the manager himself.
"He was screaming at them in Scottish. I didn't understand a word," said Mourinho. "The players were clapping so I thought 'OK, that's good'. I'm serious."
It was Manchester City's first defeat since they were beaten by Sunderland in November, but Pellegrini played down the significance of the result.
"For Chelsea it was a decisive game, not for us," he said. "If we won we were six points ahead of them. Now we are two points behind Arsenal.
"Nobody is thinking about records, we are just thinking about winning the games."
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