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Cigar was named not for the tobacco product, but for a navigational intersection for airplanes. Owner Allen Paulson was a major figure in American aviation who had owned the Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, which manufactured the famous Gulfstream private business jets. He named many of his horses after the five-letter-long names given to intersections on aeronautical navigational charts.
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