Prix Rothschild Report: Watch Me is back
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Sunday, August 2, 2020, Deauville. - Odds-on favourite in the Prix Rothschild (Gr1) after her winning comeback in a Listed-race also contested on the Deauville straight, the 4-year-old mare Watch Me (Olympic Glory) won gallantly after a good trip. Owned by Alexander Tamagni and Regula Vannod, she held the good finisher Half Light (Shamardal) at one length with Irish 3yo filly Know It All (Lord Kanaloa), always spotted in the lead, a good third, only beaten a short head.
This is a second Group 1 victory for Watch Me, thirteen months after her Coronation Stakes (Gr1) triumph at Royal Ascot.
Trained in Chantilly by Francis-Henri Graffard, Watch Me was bought for € 30,000 at the Deauville yearling sales. Her Elvstroem brother is in the September Selection sales in Deauville. After the Coronation Stakes (Gr1), which had followed an unfortunate sixth place in the French 1,000 Guineas, she finished fourth against the males and aged horses in the Prix Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard Jacques le Marois (Gr1) and completed the 2019 season by venturing over 10 furlongs with a third place in the Prix de l'Opéra Longines (Gr1).