In this week's Rowe On Monday, Tim Rowe speaks to the owner of retired mare Amelia's Jewel about his decision to sell, canvasses thoughts on a Racing Victoria review into the VOBIS program and provides an insight into the progeny of Admire Mars.
Sleepless night after brilliant career for Amelia’s Jewel
West Australian owner-breeder Peter Walsh didn’t sleep much on Saturday night.
He’d just returned from Bali, a regular holiday destination for the Amelia Park Racing and Breeding principal and his wife Annie, but he realised that his pride and joy, Group 1-winning mare Amelia’s Jewel, had run her last race.
The five-year-old by Siyouni, who ran fifth in the Queen of the Turf Stakes at Randwick earlier that day, will be offered at the Chairman’s Sale at Inglis’ Riverside Stables on May 8.
Just seven weeks earlier, and not long before Amelia’s Jewel would win the Group 2 Guy Walter first-up at Randwick, Walsh told this column that he was adamant that he wouldn’t sell the valuable filly.
The same applied to the mare’s imported mother Bumbasina - also the dam of Group 1-placed colt Bosustow - and Amelia’s Jewel’s weanling sister, also by champion France sire Siyouni.
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