OGMA Investments, Ramiro Restrepo, Sterling Racing and CMNWLTH

Ramiro Restrepo and Gustavo Delgado Jr., assistant trainer to his father, purchased Mage at auction for $290,000. Delgado Jr races as OGMA Investments, while Restrepo works for Fasig-Tipton Co. as its South Florida market representative and is a bloodstock agent.

Having gone well over budget for the Good Magic colt at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale in Timonium, Md, Restrepo immediately called Sam Herzberg of Sterling Racing, who Restrepo has known for more than 10 years.  Restrepo, 44, and OGMA Investments wound up partnering with Herzberg’s Sterling Racing and CMNWLTH, which sells shares in promising horses, after he was purchased at the auction. Restrepo knew Chase Chamberlin and Brian Doxtator of CMNWLTH.

The partnership reached the Kentucky Derby when Mage finished second in the Curlin Florida Derby Presented by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm at Xalapa April 1 and then the lightly raced Good Magic colt outfinished Two Phil's and Angel of Empire to win the $3 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve May 6 at Churchill Downs.

"You brought a guy from California, from Tennessee, Sam from South Florida, myself from Miami. I call him the Big Puma," Restrepo said of trainer Gustavo Delgado after winning the Kentucky Derby. "If you look at him, he looks like a puma, with his white mane ‑‑ and Puma Jr. So the Pumas. We came together, and, brother, here we are."

Herzberg previously reached the Kentucky Derby with Black Onyx in 2013, but the Spiral Stakes winner was forced to miss the race with an ankle injury the day before the race. For him after that heartbreak, the opprtunity to partner with Restrepo and the Delgados was too good to pass up.

"So it's been 10 years, and Ramiro calls me," Herzberg said. "I'm in California. He said, 'I just bought a horse at the Mid‑Atlantic sale. I think he's the best Good Magic in the country.' I said, yeah, I will take 25%."