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By Ray Hickson

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 lightly raced four-year-old, O’Shea is confident he has plenty of horse 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, $2.60 with TAB on Tuesday, 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 of One Aye over the same course two weeks ago.

He rises 2kg for that win and staying in the same grade.

“It brought him on, he did a good job to win considering not everything had gone his way,’’ he 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.

Inquiring Minds wins at Warwick Farm on May 22

One of those was at Royal Ascot last year and he finished midfield behind Desert Hero and Valiant King, the latter making his Australian debut last spring running sixth in the Caulfield Cup as a $10 chance.

“We won’t go past 10 furlongs and see if we can’t have a bit of fun with him that way,’’ O’Shea said.

“We thought he wasn’t a genuine mile and a half horse and the race he ran in at a mile and a half was as good a form race there was in Europe last year.

“I was happy to forgive him that run and all his other runs were more than acceptable.”

The Randwick trainer is anticipating improvement from two-year-old True Amor at his second race start in the Drinkwise Plate (1100m).

He finished fourth behind Equipage on debut after leading at Hawkesbury and O’Shea is keen for the colt to be a little more conservatively ridden at Warwick Farm.

“He’s a really nice horse and we’re looking forward to running him,’’ he said.

“I think he’s a better horse with a sit so we will endeavour to do that from that gate. Ideally we can get him on the board and go from there.”

All the fields, form and replays for Wednesday’s Warwick Farm meeting