Hot to Trot is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Michael Dinner, written by Hugo Gilbert, Stephen Neigher, Charlie Peters and Andy Breckman and stars Bobcat Goldthwait (credited as Bob Goldthwait), Virginia Madsen, Jim Metzler, Dabney Coleman and the voice of John Candy.

Simpleton bachelor Fred Chaney (Goldthwait) inherits a buck-toothed horse named Don and one half of a stock brokerage firm from his dead mother.

He discovers Don is a talking horse (who can also speak the language of several other animals) that belonged to his deceased father.

Instead, Chaney returns Don to his talking horse family in the countryside and claims his place as partner at the firm.

Conveniently, Don meets a beautiful white horse named Satin Doll at the stables soon after and develops a crush on the mare.

Chaney's successes continue, and Sawyer asks his secretary Allison (Madsen) to find out Cheney's secrets.

Victory will win Cheney all of Sawyer's prized equines, including Don's love interest Satin Doll.

Unable to find an adequate jockey, Don (having entered the race from the "Pepperidge Farm" Stables) will be ridden by an inexperienced Chaney.

The exhausted Don now trails a final challenger named Lord Kensington, the horse of Sawyer.

After the success of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Warner Bros. offered the film to Tim Burton, who turned it down.

[3] Originally scheduled for theatrical release in the fall of 1987,[4] Warner Bros. pushed it back to Memorial Day Weekend 1988, as a result of the poor test screenings,[5] before ultimately opening it on August 26, 1988, over a year after filming was completed.

[citation needed] Marketing for the film featured newspaper advertisements with a promotional 1-800 number, that when called contained a several minute recorded message from John Candy (as Don the Talking Horse) telling jokes, and talking a bit about the film, including the line "Hi!