Quarter Horse World Champion He Looks Hot retired

He Looks Hot, the 2019 Quarter Horse World Champion, has been retired after finishing last of six in a division of the Brad McKinzie Los Alamitos Winter Championship trials on Jan. 19.

Owner and breeder Ed Allred and trainer Scott Willoughby made the announcement on Thursday evening at the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association’s annual awards dinner at Los Alamitos where He Looks Hot was honored as the organization’s Horse of the Year for 2019.

He Looks Hot clinched his national and regional titles with a win in the $600,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos in December.

He Looks Hot will be retired to Allred’s Rolling A Ranch in Atascadero, Calif.

“He’ll be in a pasture at his new home,” Allred said. “He can live to be 35 and he’ll always have a home.”

He Looks Hot, an 8-year-old gelding, won 14 of 39 starts and earned $1,618,055. Aside from the Champion of Champions, He Looks Hot is well known for winning the 2014 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity.

He Looks Hot survived three bouts with colic in his racing career – two in 2015 and one in 2018.