'As Good As It Gets:' MLB Vet Jason Werth's Horse, Dornoch, Won The Belmont Stakes

If you're a pro athlete who calls it a career after making some serious cash, there are few flexes as big as getting in on some horse racing.

A bigger flex? Being a pro athlete who retires after making some serious cash, gets into horse racing, and then has a horse that wins the Belmont Stakes.

That's precisely what former big leaguer Jayson Werth did thanks to Dornoch, the horse he co-owns.

The 15-year MLB vet who spent time with the Blue Jays, Dodgers, Phillies, and Nationals was on hand for the Belmont Stakes, which was taking place at Saratoga Race Course for the first time while Belmont Park's track undergoes some renovations.

Dornoch competed in the Kentucky Derby this year and came into the Belmont Stakes at 17-1.

Of course, if you had listened to OutKick's own Geoff Clark, those odds wouldn't have scared you.

Man, what a race.

That certainly got the blood pumping for a lot of people, but not as many would be as fired up as Werth was after that win.

Werth — who won a World Series with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2008 — was asked after the race how he would compare this win to a world championship.

"I would put it right up there with winning [on] the biggest stage," he said. "Horse racing is the most underrated sport in the world, bar none," he said, while looking like Jared Leto if Jared Leto wasn't the most insufferable person on the planet. "It's the biggest game. You've got the Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont; we just won the Belmont.

This is as good as it gets in horse racing; this is as good as it gets in sports."

That wraps horse racing's Triple Crown races for the year, which saw three different horses take wins this year. Mystik Dan got things going with a win in the Kentucky Derby, but the Triple Crown hopes were dashed in the Preakness by Seize The Grey.