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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...
...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...
...horse is only days away from his own travel to Dubai, which is a long way from South Dakota, where Mott grew up as the son of a veterinarian. "I located it on the globe the 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...
...closes to the public, then invites cigar smokers, for $125 a person, to a black-tie evening of cocktails, a five-course meal and all the cigars they can smoke. It is just one of dozens of such cloudy gatherings that are organized coast to coast each month. Gordon Mott, managing editor of Cigar Aficionado magazine, calls them "the speakeasies...
...done it," says Lona Mott, a ninth-grader at Franklin Area High School, from which Shingledecker graduated last spring. On Halloween two years ago, she recalls, she and 20 other kids took turns arranging themselves like sardines across a road. When they saw headlights, most bolted, but a few stayed pat. Says Mott: "All my friends were doing it, so I did it. I wasn't even thinking of getting...