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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2017 SCHIVARELLI AND MORLEY REUNITED RIDING HIGH FROM by Christie DeBernardis BREEDERS= CUP, MILLER Trainer Tom Morley first encountered the 6-year-old Schivarelli (Montbrook) back in 2014 when the horse was under BARN YET TO COME DOWN the care of trainer Eddie Kenneally. The gelding was claimed away from Kenneally in August of this year and Morley has been trying to get him in his stable since. The third time proved to be the charm as the Englishman haltered Schivarelli for $50,000 Saturday after a seven-length victory at Aqueduct. AI was helping Eddie out when this horse was on the New York Triple Crown trail, so I=ve known Schiv for a long time,@ Morley said. AHe is a horse I know incredibly well and I know his ability level too. As soon as I saw him back in for a tag after Eddie lost him, I texted him and said, >Any change in Schiv?= He said, >No, not at all. You should go claim him.= And that is what I=ve been trying to do.@ Cont. p5 (click here) IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Peter Miller at the Breeders= Cup | Breeders= Cup/Eclipse Sportswire AUSTRALIA DAY AT GOFFS by Bill Finley A colt by Australia (GB) topped the second day of the Racing is supposed to be a game of highs and lows, so after reworked Goffs November Foal Sale at €260,000. Emma Peter Miller enjoyed the best day of his career on Breeders= Cup Berry has a full report. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Day, it wouldn=t have come as a surprise if his barn started to head in the other direction. Not everything can go right every day. Or can it? Miller must be wondering. The trainer finished one-two in the GI Breeders= Cup Turf Sprint as Stormy Liberal (Stormy Atlantic) edged out stablemate Richard=s Boy (Idiot Proof). Three races later, he won the GI TwinSpires Breeders= Cup Sprint with Roy H (More Than Ready). Miller wins a lot of races, but isn=t often given a chance with top-class horses. The Breeders= Cup wins were his first Grade I victories since the 2013 GI La Brea S. He won that race with Heir Kitty (Wildcat Heir). What he did next was take the Breeders= Cup mojo and run with it. Miller won five races over this past weekend at Del Mar and now has 16 winners at the meet with a 33% winning rate. Jerry Hollendorfer is second with seven wins. AI=m a big believer in the energy in the barn,@ Miller said. AThe horses are so sensitive to energy, to good and bad. When everyone kind of has a spring in their step and is happy to be working, the horses feel it and vice versa.@ Cont. p3 557 mares bred from 2015-17 Dynaformer - Curriculum, by Danzig $15,000 S&N PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 16 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 22, 2017 Miller Barn Riding High cont. in the summer. And, yes, we are getting good spots to run in. AWhen the boss is in a bad mood and the people are in a bad When most of your horses have blinking lights on the board, you mood, the horses sense that,@ Miller continued. AThere know you=re in the right spot. It=s good when there=s a blinking definitely is that thing of mojo or light between the six and the energy or whatever you want to five. And we=re getting lucky, call it that I believe horses can getting good posts, good rides, really sense. Certainly, winning winning the head-bobs. It=s just those two Breeders= Cup races a combination of everything picked everybody=s head up in going right.@ the barn.@ Miller knows he has to cool Since Roy H=s win in the Sprint, down at some point. the Miller barn has gone 12 for AYou never expect to go on a 36 at Del Mar. Beyond the run like this,@ he said. AYou=re positive karma of the Breeders= just thankful when you do. You Cup, he attributes his success to know it won=t last and you just many different factors. try to enjoy it while it=s ADuring the summer meet at happening. In this business as a Del Mar, I did not do well (15 for Peter Miller embracing Kent Desormeaux after Roy H captured the trainer you=re never as good as 126) and the track was very GI TwinSpires Breeders= Cup Sprint | Breeders= Cup/Eclipse Sportswire you think you are and you=re deep, heavy and slow,@ he said. AI was training at San Luis Rey never as bad as you think you are. When you=re going bad you Downs and it wasn=t a good fit. For the Bing Crosby meet, I think you can=t do anything right and when you=re going good decided to send the horses who were going to run on the dirt you think you=re King Kong on a ladder. Neither one of them is down to Del Mar a couple weeks in advance of the race. I think true. You=re somewhere in the middle.@ that=s been beneficial. The track is tighter and faster than it was Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 16 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 22, 2017 Miller Barn Riding High cont. know which horses need time and which ones don=t. You can=t Miller is aggressive when spotting horses, always looking for a just say this horse ran a 6 on the sheets, it=s going to bounce to spot where they can win. If that means running a horse back in a the moon unless you give it eight weeks off.@ week, he will. That makes him a rarity among today=s trainers. There is something about the Bing Crosby meet that brings out On Saturday, one of his winners, the best in the Miller stable. He won Painting Corners (Pleasant Strike) was the training title in 2016 and tied for running back in seven days. Among his first with Phil D=Amato in 2015, the other four winners over the weekend, first year Del Mar ran in the fall. the longest layoff any of them had was It helps that he has a lot of horses, three weeks. but he=s always looking for better AThe key to winning races is entering ones. Did his Breeders= Cup wins and horses where they belong and I his domination of this meet cause any probably enter more aggressively than owners to take notice? anyone in California,@ he said. AI hope AEveryone says your phone must be guys continue not to because it makes ringing off the hook since the it easier for me. That=s the key, running Breeders= Cup,@ he said. AWell, that=s horses where they belong. It=s not not the way this industry works. All of brain surgery. Stormy Liberal winning the GI Breeders= Cup Turf Sprint my business is from word of mouth, Breeders= Cup/Eclipse Sportswire AOne of the winners this week ran referrals or people calling me because back in seven days and she won nicely. You have these sheet they like me. It=s not me hustling. I=m not a really a hustler. I=m numbers, Ragozin and Thoro-Graph, selling this propaganda that hoping some people recognize me and some of the bigger and horses need X amount of time between races and I think it=s a better breeders and owners give me a chance. ln the meantime, lot of nonsense. If you=re at the barn every day and watching I=ll just take what I get and do the best I can with them.@ every horse and checking legs and doing the right things, you TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 16 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 22, 2017 Schivarelli and Morley Reunited cont.