Dornoch won the Belmont Stakes on Saturday evening in Saratoga Springs, New York, to conclude the 2024 slate of Triple Crown horse races.

At 17-1 odds, Dornoch knocked off Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan, who entered with 6-1 odds, and Seize the Grey, who won the Preakness Stakes and was 5-1 to win, in 2:01.64.

Seize the Grey spent most of the race neck-and-neck with Dornoch before fading to seventh place, just ahead of Mystik Dan. Mindframe, another 5-1 horse, made a strong push toward the end, but it was not enough.

Dornoch is co-owned by former MLB player Jayson Werth, who won the 2008 World Series with the Philadelphia Phillies before spending the final seven seasons of his career with the Washington Nationals.

“I would put it right up there with winning on the biggest stage,” Werth said. “Horse racing is the most underrated sport in the world, bar none. It’s the biggest game: You get the Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont. We just won the Belmont. This is as good as it gets in horse racing. It’s as good as it gets in sports.”

The victory marked the second Belmont win for jockey Luis Saez, and the first in any Triple Crown race for trainer Danny Gargan.

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“No one believed in this horse,” Gargan said. “It’s speechless. He’s such a talented horse.”

The 2024 running of the Belmont Stakes, the 156th in history, was the first time it took place at Saratoga Race Course. Construction at Belmont Park necessitated the move, and with it, the race was only 1 1/4 miles instead of the typical 1 1/2.