Quantum Quest

Trained by Henry De Bromhead out of Knockeen in County Waterford — a yard that has sent out 107 winners already this season, so they know what a good horse looks like — Quantum Quest has put together a career record of 2 wins and 4 places from 9 races. That works out to roughly 1 win in every 4 or 5 races, which sounds modest until you look at the recent form. His last six runs read 10-2-5-1-1-2, meaning he has won 2 of those 6 races and finished second in two more. He is clearly in the form of his life.

The big clue to unlocking this horse is the ground. On wet or muddy ground, he has won 2 of just 3 races — a remarkable two-thirds success rate. Conditions need to be in his favour, but when they are, he is a genuinely different proposition. His partnership with jockey J J Slevin has been equally decisive: together they have won 2 of 6 races, a win rate of 33%, or roughly 1 in every 3 rides. That is a strong record and suggests Slevin knows exactly how to get the best out of him.

The timeline of wins tells its own story. His first career victory came at Kilbeggan in August 2025, and he followed that up with another at Roscommon in late September. Since then, a fifth-place finish at Cheltenham in a Pertemps qualifier — one of the most competitive hurdle races in the calendar — showed he can hold his own in much tougher company. De Bromhead has spoken about him as a "real chaser in the making," which is the kind of remark that tends to stick in the memory. It suggests this horse has a bigger future over fences once the yard decide the time is right to switch him.

He raced just yesterday and is very much an active campaign. For now, another race over hurdles looks likely in the coming weeks — but the sense from the De Bromhead yard is that Quantum Quest is a horse being pointed somewhere meaningful.