Johnny Levins© Photo Healy Racing
Black Beach is to be given entries in three of the two-year-old races at Royal Ascot after a second eyecatching run in the Marble Hill Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.
The Johnny Levins-trained youngster stepped up on his debut just six days earlier, when he was runner-up to Auld Enemy at Navan, with a big performance to take minor honours behind Round Two and Washington DC in the Listed contest, also over five furlongs.
Levins believes Black Beach to have the potential to develop into a classy performer and revealed there has been plenty of interest in the son of Footstepsinthesand.
"He's come out of it very well," said the County Kildare handler.
"He's a good, solid colt. He's still learning about racing, but my own thoughts about when he does learn how to race is that he'll make an exceptional miler.
"I suppose the logical choice would be to give him entries in the two-year-old races at Ascot. We'll see how he is in the meantime and take it from there.
"If he's good enough to go and he's ready, then he'll take up one of those engagements.
"To give him all the options, he'll have entries in the Coventry, Norfolk and the Windsor Castle. We'll assess the situation and decide accordingly which race to run him in.
"It's very exciting and I can see him developing because what he's doing at two is exceptional.
"I think when the penny dopes drop with him he could develop into a high-class miler as a three-year-old and maybe into a Guineas horse.
"There is plenty interest in him. We'll just sit tight and see what happens. These things normally tend to sort themselves out."
