The gelding notched up his second career win at start number 14 with a come-from-behind victory in the benchmark 58 handicap over 1500m.

It was the first of two Bendigo-trained winners on the program, with the Rod Symons-trained Chuckanev, ridden by Luke Nolen, confidently taking out the last race, to give the the three-year-old back-to-back wins following his maiden success at Wangaratta late last month.

Surin Beach, by Excelebration out of Sayetta, had struck plenty of trouble in his seven previous runs this campaign.

But given an uninterrupted passage into the race, and with Damien Thornton in the saddle timing his run to perfection, he was able to mow down the early pacemaker The Enzo and Koalabull, who stuck on well for second, in the dying stages, much to the relief of his trainer.

"He sort of brings a lot of (the bad luck) on himself; he's certainly got the ability and you'd think he'd be winning better races on what he does on the training track," Fliedner said.

"I don't know whether it's waywardness, or if he gets lost. Even in the straight today, he did it the hard way. He sat three-deep all the way, but it was better not to be all cluttered up with him.

"He looks like he doesn't really want to win, but he can stick his head out late.

"I think he needs (an uninterrupted flow into the race), a lot of times he loses two or three lengths between the 500m and 300m and it costs him dearly in some races."

Fliedner said a tilt at a race at next month's Swan Hill Cup Carnival was likely for Surin Beach.

The gelding has form on the track, having won his maiden there in September last year, with Fliedner hopeful of further tweak in luck.

"He appreciates the track and he is not real good on the wet, so I'm hoping they have a drought coming at Swan Hill," he said.

His sentiments were echoed by Thornton, who insisted the only barrier to victory on Sunday was Surin Beach himself.

"He still wandered around, not putting the race away as such, so there's a little bit more there than he is letting on at the moment," he said.

"He got the job done, but I think once he goes to the mile and a bit further, he's going to be better again. He's got more races in him."

Meanwhile, Swan Hill trainer Con Kelly is also looking ahead to his hometown cup carnival next month following an impressive win with Spanish Snitzel on Sunday.

The rapidly improving three-year-old colt made it two wins in three runs on the Bendigo track with a fast-finishing victory in a quality benchmark 70 over 1600m.

It was a near carbon copy of his benchmark 64 win last month at Bendigo, with the colt again strong to the line down the outside.

He followed that with a respectable fifth on a soft 7 at Warrnambool on day two of the cup carnival earlier this month, filling Kelly and jockey Neil Farley with a degree of confidence on Sunday.

"(Neil) knows the horse well now and I was a little concerned with the track out nine-metres today that there mightn't have been as much room to go to the outside," Kelly said.

"He's threaded the needle and done well.

"The June carnival at Swan Hill is coming up hard and fast and after that he might deserve a bit of a let-up because he's been up for a while.

"But he just keeps doing it - keeps licking the (feed) bin out and he loves Bendigo obviously."

Farley, who has ridden Spanish Snitzel in six of his 16 starts for two wins and a placing, believed there was still plenty of improvement in the colt.

"The Warrnambool track was biased and it didn't really suit his style of running, but he still ran a super race there. Today I was pretty confident," he said.

Ballarat trainer Andrew Noblet hopes he has a handy two-year-old on his hands following the impressive debut win of All About Eve on Sunday.

The two-year-old filly made good on some impressive jump-out form to come from well back in the field to claim an eye-catching maiden win over 1100m.

She was superbly ridden by Will Price.

Noblet hinted at heading to Bendigo with some confidence following the filly's recent jump-out win, but acknowledged it was a tough task for any horse to win at their first start.

"I didn't expect to be that far back, but she did a great job. It's very hard to win on your first day at the races and she's done it very well," he said.

"She's a nice horse; we'll see how she pulls up and where we go from here, but it's great to get the first one out of the way."

Second in the race was the Tony and Calvin McEvoy trained favourite Mac 'N' Cheese ($2.10), who was tardy away and even further back than All About Eve on entering the straight, before eventually going down by over a length.

It was a performance, which indicated a win is not too far off for her as well if she can iron out her barrier manners.

Price fully praised an accomplished first-up effort by All About Eve.

"For a two-year-old filly to be that professional on her first day out, it was a good day for everyone," he said.

"I think the wide draw might have played in our favour.

"In the jump-out she showed a lot of pace and just sort of ran along and kept going, but today, whether she jumped or not, we were just happy to go with her and hope we got into a good rhythm.

"She was a little slow (away) today, but we were just able to relax and settle. We saw McEvoy's horse was just inside of us, but I thought if we could get that clean run down the outside we'd be good."

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