Quest For Fun

Tim Easterby trains him out of Great Habton in North Yorkshire, and Easterby is a man who knows how to keep a horse ticking over — his yard has sent out 126 winners already this season, which is a genuinely impressive volume. The team's view is that Quest For Fun is at his best when there is a bit of moisture in the ground, and the numbers back that up: on wet or soft ground he has won 2 from 9 races, a 22% win rate that is almost double his overall average. That kind of preference matters on a British racing calendar where the weather is reliably unpredictable.

His most productive distance is the short, sharp sprint range — five to six and a half furlongs, where he again wins roughly 1 in every 5 races, and where he scored most recently. That last win came at York on 25 July 2025, which is worth flagging because York is one of the finest tracks in the country. Winning there is not something every horse manages, even once. Most of his wins have come at Class 4 level — the solid, competitive middle ground of British racing — where he has won 4 from 18, again hitting that 1 in 5 ratio that suggests he genuinely belongs at that level rather than just stumbling into the odd result.

His most regular partner in the saddle is Sean Kirrane, who has ridden him 15 times and won twice together — a rate of about 1 in 8. The pair have not found the winner's enclosure in his last 6 races, with recent finishes reading 5-5-9-10-2-6, and that York success is now approaching a year ago. But for a horse still racing actively at eight, still placing, and still clearly capable of winning on his day — particularly when the ground rides soft and the distance is short — Quest For Fun remains a competitive little animal with a loyal yard behind him.