The Ken and Tony Barron-trained pacer powered back into winning form with a front-running display for driver Blair Orange at Oamaru yesterday.
Beachbabebeauty made a stunning start to his career by winning his first two race starts before failing at his next two.
Those failures may not look flash on paper, but there were genuine excuses for them, Tony Barron said.
''He tied up badly after his sixth behind The Dorchester at Ashburton and then he got knocked over on Show Day,'' he said.
The Barron brothers sent the horse for a short break after those two runs, during which he went through a growth spurt.
Future plans for the 3yr-old will depend on how much more physical developing the horse continues to do this season.
''He is somewhere between Derby level and Southern Supremacy level. We will just let the dust settle from today's run and see whether he keeps improving and make a call on where he goes,'' Barron said.
If Beachbabebeauty follows in his mother's footsteps, he will end up in some of the country's best races.
The 3yr-old is the first foal of three-time group 1-winning mare O Baby, who Orange also drove to win at the races.
Orange helped Canterbury trainer Mark Jones move towards a significant milestone yesterday.
Jones is on the countdown towards 500 wins as a trainer in New Zealand.
Eliana Franco took the trainer's career tally to 497 victories with her passing lane-win in race 1 yesterday.
Orange had the 3yr-old perfectly placed in the trail, while the hot favourite, The Dream Maker, was being eyeballed in front.
That effort told and Elianna Franco took full advantage by dashing up the Oamaru passing lane to win.
Jones could complete the feat by the weekend. He has two runners entered at Ascot Park today and six runners entered for the first of two days' racing at Nelson tomorrow.
It was a day to remember for Ineka Lee of Ashburton, who scored her first win as a trainer with Cut Above in race 9. The Gotta Go Cullen filly was having only her second start.
The thoroughbred racing industry's shocking start to 2018 continued with the abandonment of yesterday's Hokitika races.
Overnight rain caused the track to become unsafe for racing.
''Stipendiary stewards and Westland Racing Club representatives have inspected the track and have concluded that the inconsistencies in the racing surface are a safety concern and as a result the race meeting has been abandoned,'' New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing said.
Various Otago and Southland trainers and jockeys had travelled to the West Coast to compete at the meeting.
