The five-year-old won a 2040-metre race at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Harbour Views, with top jockey John Allen in the saddle having his first start over the distance, defeated Double You Tee by more then two lengths with Django Freedom in third place.

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Williams has plans to use the Feehan Stakes in September as a stepping stone to the Cox Plate in October for Harbour Views.

"The Feehan is probably the one (race) that we've got our ears pricked for," Williams said.

"That looks a good race for him to possibly get a free ticket into the Cox Plate.

"We'll just have to see where his rating goes now and have a bit of a look back through previous fields and see where he's going to get a run there.

"He might still be borderline there. He'll only have a short let-up - just couple of weeks in the paddock.

"He'll just do a bit of beach work and water walker work and poke along.

"For a big horse he's a very clean winded horse so it doesn't take a lot to get him back up again."

Allen, who has ridden countless big-race winners during his career and rode Harbour Views to his six wins from nine starts, gave a glowing report following Saturday's victory.

"He was impressive," Allen said.

"He jumped a lot cleaner which enabled us to find a more forward spot which seemed to be pretty necessary today.

"But once we got a good position early he was always travelling easily.

"He was probably in front too soon but he was too good for them.

"We landed in a good spot and he put them away.

"He's still a work in progress but he's quite lightly raced but as long as he keeps improving he'll be able to target better races."

Harbour Views has won more then $320,000 in stakemoney from his nine starts.

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