Thanks to an app, 382 investors in Mage are waiting for another chance on the winner’s circle.

Doxtator and Chamberlin grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and attended Western Michigan University. Doxtator, who now lives in Los Angeles, went to a car auction and saw a company selling stock in cars. He was intrigued by the idea and started thinking about ways to improve on that concept. Then he went to the Santa Anita circuit. Days later, he sent a message to his old friend Chamberlin, a lifelong horseman who had moved to Lexington, Ky.

“We thought of the horse racing public as a bull’s-eye,” said the 40-year-old Doxtator. “You have the core audience in the middle. Then you’re out of one ring and it’s the casual fan who maybe goes to the races a little bit, pays attention, and then you’re out of another ring, and you’ve got people who pretty much just watch the Derby and have never really been to rail. You put those two outer rings together, and if you can convert even 5 to 10 percent of that, that’s a game changer for horse racing.

Doxtator and Chamberlin launched the app in early 2021, and by the summer they partnered with WinStar Farm and offered shares in Country Grammer, which went on to win the $12 million Dubai World Cup in 2022. They also partnered with top blood agents, and so on they came into contact with Restrepo and ingested part of Mage.

About 80 of the 382 people who invested in Mage through Commonwealth were at the Derby. And so that melting pot of a group of Mage rode straight into the winner’s circle on the first Saturday in May, leading to arguably the biggest winner’s circle celebration in Derby history – even Mage looked tiny in the middle of it.

“It’s one of those weird things that you don’t want to talk about too much because you don’t want to curse yourself or anything, but we told people if we win you just have to go,” Chamberlin, 32, said. . “You’ve got your Commonwealth pin on. No one will stop you.”