Napoleon Solo won the 2026 Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Laurel Park, beating a 14-horse field in the race’s biggest lineup in 15 years. Paco Lopez rode the colt to victory in the 1 3/16-mile race, and the win came after Napoleon Solo went off at 8-1 morning odds.

Iron Honor, the 9-2 morning-line favorite, had been expected to make the race his to lose, but he could not match Napoleon Solo down the stretch. Flavien Prat rode Iron Honor, who had won the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct in February but finished seventh in the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct last month. Prat, riding in his fourth Preakness, had already won the race aboard Rombauer in 2021, finished third with Catching Freedom in 2024 and fourth with Goal Oriented last year.

Chad Summers got his first Preakness win in his first try as a trainer in the race. Lopez, 40, was riding in his second Preakness and finished fifth aboard Max Player in 2020. Napoleon Solo came into Saturday’s race off a run in the Wood Memorial after finishing fifth in the Fountain of Youth Stakes in February, but he had already shown quality when he won the Champagne Stakes in October and Talkin ran second that day.

The result landed in a Preakness stripped of the Derby winner, with Golden Tempo skipping the race after his Kentucky Derby victory. That made it impossible for anyone in the field to sweep the Triple Crown, and it marked the third time in five years that the Derby winner did not run in the Preakness. Cherie DeVaux, 33, had made history two weeks earlier when Golden Tempo became the first Derby winner trained by a woman, but the colt did not make the trip to Maryland for this one.

The Preakness was staged at Laurel Park while Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore is being redeveloped, a temporary move for a race that has called Laurel Park home since 1909. The Preakness is expected to return to the new Pimlico next year. The 14-horse lineup was the largest since 2011, when 14 runners last lined up and Shackleford beat Animal Kingdom by half a length. Chad Brown was also in the mix, chasing a third Preakness victory after wins with Cloud Computing in 2017 and Early Voting in 2022, while Chip Honcho, Incredibolt and Taj Mahal all drew 5-1 odds. Brittany Russell had a chance to make history with Taj Mahal, but the day belonged to Napoleon Solo.