Wild Oats' skipper Mark Richards told the official website that Investec Loyal was a deserved winner.
Instead, they seem to have been used to store wild barley and wild oats.
These included fierce criticisms of a competitor, Wild Oats, which Whole Foods later bought.
However, the jury found Wild Oats had received acknowledgment from Hobart radio, which did satisfy race rules.
Wild Oats finished second last year, breaking a run of four successive victories.
Wild Oats and United Natural signed a five-year primary distribution agreement last year.
The theatre is due to reopen on 5 September with a production of Wild Oats, a comedy by John O'Keeffe.
At the time Whole Foods and Wild Oats had around 300 shops, a small fraction of the 34, 000 supermarkets across America.
Linacre went on to pay tribute to Investec Loyal for their "magnificent sailing" in this race and also Wild Oats XI.
Without Wild Thing, the 76-strong fleet made the usual spectacular exit from Sydney Harbor with Wild Oats establishing an early advantage.
Pressure from Wal-Mart and Costco at the bottom and Whole Foods and Wild Oats Markets at the top leave midlevel chains vulnerable.
The second-ranked organic food chain, sad-sack Wild Oats Markets, often loses money.
United Natural of Dayville, Conn. is the primary distributor to Whole Foods and Wild Oats Markets, the nation's first- and second-largest hyperhealthy chains.
Wild Oats dropped United Natural as a primary distributor in 2002 and went with Tree of Life, a subsidiary of the Netherlands' Royal Wessanen.
In June 2007 America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) applied to the courts to stop the tie-up between Whole Foods and Wild Oats, two upmarket food retailers.
Last year's race was also hit by a controversy after Investec Loyal (now renamed Ragamuffin Loyal) pipped Wild Oats XI for line honors in a dramatic finish in Tasmania.
He dismissed the past eight months, during which tabloids and newspapers chronicled his string of new girlfriends and partying, by explaining that he believes he was sowing his wild oats.
The 100-foot Wild Oats, skippered by Australian Mark Richards, sailed into the Tasmanian capital two days, seven hours, 37 minutes and 20 seconds after leaving Sydney Harbor, having led most of the way.
The winner had to survive a protest from the race committee which alleged one of its crew members had gleaned information from a TV helicopter crew about the sails being deployed by Wild Oats.
Whole Foods looked shabby earlier this year when Chief Executive John Mackey, writing anonymously as "rahodeb, " was exposed for questioning why anyone would buy stock in Wild Oats online at the same time his company was preparing to acquire its rival.
Whole Foods (nasdaq: WFMI - news - people ) looked shabby earlier this year when Chief Executive John Mackey, writing anonymously as "rahodeb, " was exposed for questioning why anyone would buy stock in Wild Oats online at the same time his company was preparing to acquire its rival.
As a result, the fellas are running wild, sowing their oats and are loathe to settle down with any young belle.
Even Mr Bush's wild past resonates: Amish teenagers are known to sow their oats before returning to the church.
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