Bay gelding
Born 1982
By BS Skipper--
Owned by the Centaur Stable

Duncan Price’s homebred went on to capture 31 of his first 35 races, going 29-for-33 as a three-year-old, including a sweep of Sportsman Park’s 1985 “Triple Crown” Illinois-bred stakes—The Bye Bye Byrd, the Cardinal and Langley for his late driver-trainer Mike Borys.

Hothead amassed $354,613 in earnings in 1985, with his 1:55 season mark coming at the DuQuoin State Fair championship. He later was named the 1985 Illinois Horse of the Year.

In 1986 Hothead took on the very best open company pacers in the country, stunning millionaire Chairmanoftheboard in the American National Aged Pace Final on the Cicero, Illinois five-eighths oval. One of Hothead’s most memorable races came in defeat went he dueled the 1985 Horse of the Year Forrest Skipper the length of the Sportsman’s stretch before coming up only a head short at the finish of the U.S. Pacing Championship with Hostetler at his lines.

Hothead then went to race at The Meadowlands. In his 1987 season he banked $197,515 and added $207,150 in his 1988 campaign. He ended his career in 1991 with earnings of $904,333, at that time making him one of the richest Illinois pacers of all time.