Nottingham best each-way bet: Desert Quest has quality to justify long journey south
- John Fearn
- 8 July 2023
While the last race of the night at Nottingham looks wide open, there’s a consensus in the Tipstrr community that Scottish raider Desert Quest could be poised to upset the market leaders.
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With the favourite tag changing hands and just a couple of points covering the top four in the betting, there appears to be a vulnerability among the market leaders that suggest it might be wiser to look lower down the list and take advantage of the extra each-way places that some bookies are offering.
That brings in Desert Quest, who is one of the two runners (Rose Camiro being the other) to have enjoyed previous course-and-distance success here.
That success was the first of the two back-to-back wins he enjoyed in the summer of 2021, a feat he repeated with consecutive wins over similar distances at Ayr and Redcar around this time last year.
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Those first two wins in 2021 were under the guidance of Cam Hardie, who reunites here to hopefully build on Desert Quest's encouraging reappearance following an extended eight-month winter break
He kicked off this term with a decent pipe-opener in an apprentice handicap 17 days ago, when he blew away a few cobwebs over a sharper 12-furlong trip at Hamilton.
Trainer Ewan Whillans is based in Scotland and races most of his horses north or the border or in northern England, so it is perhaps significant that his solitary runner this weekend involves a long trip south for an evening meeting in the Midlands.
Suggested bet: Desert Quest each-way in the 20:42 at Nottingham
