Rough Quest (10 May 1986 – 19 October 2016[2]) was a Thoroughbred racehorse most famous for his victory in the 1996 Grand National at Aintree.
Rough Quest was a bay horse bred in England by Michael Healy.
Mick Fitzgerald took the ride to be the first favourite to win the race for fourteen years.
However the race was most notable for a prolonged stewards' enquiry into the possibility that the winner had crossed the runner up Encore Un Peu on the run in.
Rough Quest never fully recovered from his efforts and was found to have a muscle enzyme disorder, winning just one more race in his career, a hunter chase at Newbury in 1999 before being retired later that year.