page_title: Harry Watts (jockey)
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Watts (jockey) / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Canadian jockey, Harry Watts, astride Tartarean after winning the King's Plate (1915)
context_page_description: Harry Watts was a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He won the 56th running of Canada's King's Plate race in 1915 on the horse Tartarean.
context_section_description: Watts was born in 1894 in Toronto. On May 22, 1915, at Woodbine Racetrack, Watts rode Tartarean to victory for the King's Plate, finishing in 2:09.20. Watts' brother, Richard, was also a professional thoroughbred jockey. After a successful career as a jockey, Watts retired from the sport, and became a butcher. He married Myrtle E McEwan, and together they had three children. The family owned a longstanding butcher shop in Toronto's East York until Watts' death in 1940, in Toronto. He is buried in Toronto's historic St John Norway's Church Cemetery.
caption: Harry Watts astride Tartarean after winning the King's Plate in 1915.
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