Inspiring looks ready to strike

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S progressive Awe Inspiring should now be ready to strike and gets the nap in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Cork tonight.

O’Brien and stable jockey, Johnny Murtagh, are facing into a big weekend, with St Nicholas Abbey in the English 2000 Guineas, and the daughter of Montjeu can send the duo off to Newmarket in the best of form by providing themwith a minor confidence-booster.

The selection improved substantially from her first to her second outing as a juvenile and seems to have trained on well, on the evidence of a first pop of the campaign at Leopardstown last month.