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Hot Suspect is a 9 year old bay gelding. Hot Suspect is trained by P A Preusker, at Horsham and owned by P A Preusker & D H Morice.
Hot Suspect’s last race event was at 16/01/2026 and it has not been nominated for any upcoming race.
Career form is 5 wins, 1 seconds, 4 thirds from 33 starts with a lifetime career prize money of $128,005.
With a 15% Win Percentage and 30% Place Percentage. Hot Suspect's last race event was at Penola.
Exposed form for its last starts is 6-7-6-8-8.
Last Updated: 16/01/2026
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