After beginning her career in England she was transferred to the United States where she won the Coaching Club American Oaks and Alabama Stakes.

Questing is a bay filly with a small white star bred in the United Kingdom by Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stud.

She was from the first crop of foals sired by the Kentucky Derby runner-up Hard Spun[1] Her dam, the Seeking the Gold mare Chercheuse is a descendant of the champion racehorse and broodmare Vagrancy.

[2] Chercheuse was a good racehorse, but below top class, winning five times in France including two Listed races.

Ridden by 19-year-old Irad Ortiz, she took the lead after half a mile, went clear of her rivals, and won by four and a quarter lengths from Zo Impressive and Black-Eyed Susan Stakes winner In Lingerie.