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...first time workers at the Hathaway shirt plant in Waterville, Maine, met their boss, Linda Wachner, in August 1994, she introduced herself as "Miss Linda" and showed up wearing a gray sweat suit. Despite the informality, signs of Wachner's clout and wealth were evident, from the Gulfstream jet she arrived in to her heart-shaped, five-carat diamond ring to the coterie of executives who trailed in her wake. It was a retinue befitting the chairman and CEO of Warnaco Group, Inc., Hathaway's parent, primarily a manufacturer of intimate apparel, with sales last year of $916 million...
ABOUT THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN TELL that the best Thoroughbred in the world rooms and boards in one of the stalls of Barn 7 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Florida, is by the poem taped to the door of trainer Bill Mott's office. "Once in a lifetime/ It's said about horses like you," writes one Kristen Sharer. "But to you, that's nothing./You've more winning...
...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...
Then came victories in the Donn Handicap and the Gulfstream Park Handicap. At the Oaklawn Handicap in Arkansas last April, Cigar was accidentally whipped in the face by the jockey aboard another horse; most horses would have backed up after such a blow, but Cigar just got mad and blew away a stellar field. During the Hollywood Gold Cup in California last July, Cigar was hit in the head by a huge clod of dirt, and Bailey needed all his strength to hold back the horse before letting him go on to an easy victory. Cigar's folk-hero status...
...stake in QVC, squelched the deal and then tendered its own offer to buy out Diller's share of the channel. Bitterly disappointed but $100 million richer, Diller came to his present pass, the tragedy of a man still forced to fly around the country in a Gulfstream II when all the other boys have Gulfstream...