Yup.
What a sad situation.
Interesting. I was just telling my 18yro son about our days going to the Director’s Room on stakes race days as guests of Bruce Headley whenever they had horses running in the big $ races (circa 1999-2006). It was a very…unique environment being around the rich (and at times, super rich) while being catered to by overly eager to serve staff. (Killer buffet, though, if you could even call it that–caviar and the like, heh. Had the absolute best chocolate cake of my life one time at Del Mar!)
As a (young) woman, I felt very out of place because all of the other women around me were nearly always one of two types: early 20s “arm candy” or late 50s-60s old money. Both taught me that what I thought were exaggerated characters on TV/film aren’t at all that far from reality. (There was one owner whose husband had just sold his company for $1 billion that I connected with–she was very down to earth. Wish I remembered her name. Also, Beverly Lewis was as lovely in private conversation as she was in all the televised interviews I’d seen.)
That said, if Stronach was used to this sort of world where women were either accessories or wives to keep happy while the men worked, it tracks that he would want a shopping mall next to where The Men Do Man Stuff. Everything in our experiences struck as very stunted as far as social progression, and Stronach seems stunted even within that world. Gross.
FWIW, the scuttlebutt within that world was never positive about Stronach. He, Baffert, and Repole were borderline spit-on-the-ground-when-saying-their-name. (Just for funsies to share more insider impressions, D. Wayne Lukas was well liked but “he owes everybody money” and Doug O’Neill was “a snake.”)
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