SAN DIEGO — When Donegal Racing decided Belmont Stakes-winning jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. would receive a rare share of Mo Donegal's future work as a stallion, the ripples reached the shores of California.
Here was a Des Moines, Iowa-based group of 54 — famed for roots with everyone from teachers to prep coaches; some shares as small as a quarter of a percent — deciding to shave off a manageable piece of the Triple Crown pie for someone risking life and limb to get there.
If those chasing a dream with meager margins can do what's right, why can't the sheiks, business magnates and celebrity clingers?
