Watchme Win continued his climb up the class ranks and provided Harry Angel with another feature-race winner when the four-year-old captured the G3 John Hawkes Stakes over 1,100m at Morphettville on Saturday, 26 April.
Watchme Win shot through along the fence at the top of the home straight before racing clear to beat Volcanic Express and Press Down. It was Watchme Win’s first Black-Type success and took his prize-money and bonus earnings to $236,150.
WATCHME WIN (4 g Harry Angel - Watchmespin) takes out the John Hawkes Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) for @MacdonaldRacing 🤍
— ANZ Bloodstock (@anz_news) April 26, 2025
The gelding by @DarleyAus' HARRY ANGEL was a $160,000 @NoorilimPark @inglis_sales Premier graduate, and gives his sire a 19th stakes winner 💙 https://t.co/XfRW0a8hXI
Trained by Andrew Gluyas at Morphettville, Watchme Win was bred by the Toorak Thoroughbred Breeding Trust and offered by Noorilim Park, Arcadia at the 2022 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale where he was sold for $160,000 to Macdonald & Gluyas Racing.
Out of the Australian mare Watchmespin, Watchme Win is a half-brother to smart three-year-old Point And Shoot (Blue Point).
The leading third-season sire in Australia, Harry Angel is currently in seventh place on the overall sires’ prize-money list this season – a remarkable feat as his oldest Southern Hemisphere crop are just four years old.
Harry Angel has already sired 199 winners of 444 races worldwide, including 19 Stakes-race winners of 30 Black-Type events. Just last month, Harry Angel’s sons Private Harry won the G1 The Galaxy over 1,100m at Rosehill Gardens before Tom Kitten took the G1 All-Star Mile at Flemington.
A 50 per cent share in the unbeaten colt Private Harry was subsequently sold for $15 million, with the three-year-old to be aimed at the $20 million The Everest at Royal Randwick in October.
Harry Angel currently stands at Dalham Hall Stud, Newmarket for a fee of £10,000, Oct 1, SLF.
