Amelia’s Jewel to be trained in Sydney

Amelia’s Jewel’s (Siyouni) autumn campaign will be her last with Simon Miller, after the four-year-old’s owner Peter Walsh revealed the star Western Australian mare is to be trained in Sydney this spring.

The daughter of Siyouni (Pivotal) will have two starts in Perth this campaign, which will be geared around the $5 million The Quokka (1200m) on April 20, and potentially one in Brisbane before spelling, after which she will be transferred east. Walsh is yet to decide which trainer she will go to.

“We’re going to give her two starts there and then myself and Simon will sit down and work out if we do another one in Brisbane or whatever and then, unfortunately, she’ll stay in New South Wales and she’ll be trained over in New South Wales,” Walsh said.

“Me and Simon have already talked about that. It’s a bit impossible for him to be going backwards and forwards, but he’s done a great job with her. It’s been fantastic.”

Walsh said Miller was philosophical at the prospect of losing the best horse he has trained.

“Simon’s great. When she first went there I said, ‘if she shows a bit of ability, I’m sending her over east’ and he said, ‘yeah, no worries mate’ and she never lost a race,” Walsh said.

“I could have sent her then, but I wanted to keep her in WA because Simon trained her so well. Of course he’d be disappointed losing her, but I hope to keep him in the loop somewhere along the line and he’s probably had her an extra year-and-a-half and we’ve still got The Quokka and we’ve got the Roma Cup to go and then maybe a race up here.”