Trainer John O’Shea has high hopes for promising import Inquiring Minds and is looking for the lightly raced galloper to build on his solid last-start win when he returns to Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
While there’s no grand winter plans for the four-year-old, O’Shea is confident he has plenty to work with going into next year.
“We’ll keep going until he’s had enough, probably turn him out and geld him and make a really nice horse next season,” he said.
“We’re really happy with him, everything’s going the right way.”
Inquiring Minds will be a much fitter horse in the Admire Mars At Arrowfield Handicap (1600m) than he was going into his second-up win.
He was a month between runs and paraded like a horse with plenty of improvement in him prior to holding off One Aye over the same course two weeks ago.
He rises 2kg for that win and stays in the same grade.
“It brought him on, he did a good job to win considering not everything had gone his way,” O’Shea said.
While four of the entire’s seven career starts have been over 2400m, it’s not likely he’ll be asked to stretch out that far in Australia.