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...particularly handsome, yet he gets Valentine's Day and get-well cards--and poems--from women of all ages. His breeding is nice though hardly impeccable--Mama was Solar Slew, a daughter of Seattle Slew, but Papa was a rolling stone named Palace Music. Only 18 months ago, Cigar was a nondescript bay five-year-old with two victories in 13 starts. Today he is the nicest thing to happen to horse racing since Secretariat...
What happened between then and now is that Cigar won 13 straight races, 11 of them stakes, at six different tracks. He has passed such legends as Kelso (11) and Spectacular Bid (12), and is bearing down on Man o' War (14), Buckpasser (15) and, the greatest of all, Citation (16). A stone bruise to one of his hooves prevented Cigar from racing in the Santa Anita Handicap last month, so win No. 14 will have to wait until March 27, when Cigar runs in the $4 million Dubai World...
...Standing still like this, he doesn't really look all that impressive," Mott says while slipping Cigar a sugar cube. "But come race day, he's a different horse. He grows bigger, like he's been pumped up. And look at the intelligence in those eyes." Indeed, Cigar can make even a casual visitor feel like Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms...
...other day," says the 42-year-old trainer, though in truth he has been hard at work on the logistics of the trip for months. He knows that Dubai's track surface is like Belmont's, that the hay there is from Washington State, and that the journey for Cigar will take 18 to 20 hours, stall to stall, counting a refueling layover at Shannon Airport in Ireland. Fortunately, Cigar flies well, as befits a horse owned by Gulfstream Aerospace magnate Allen Paulson and named not for the smoke but for an aviation checkpoint in the Gulf of Mexico...
...raspy voice, wryly unflappable manner and ever present cigar were trademarks as familiar as Chaplin's cane or Lucy's red hair. Burns was not a particularly influential or groundbreaking comic, like Groucho Marx or George's old friend Jack Benny. But no one commanded the stage with more easygoing--and, as the years went on, inspiring--authority. He was 62 when his wife and longtime partner Gracie Allen retired, but his career was barely past its midpoint. He went on to even greater success in nightclubs, television and movies. His longevity became part of his appeal and the subject...