Napoleon Solo won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, which took place away from Pimlico Race Course for the first time in 151 runnings of the race.

Napoleon Solo won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, which took place away from Pimlico Race Course for the first time in 151 runnings of the race.

Napoleon Solo reemerged as a colt to watch with a victory in the Preakness Stakes and now trainer Chad Summers wants a shot at Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo.

May 16 (UPI) -- Napoleon Solo led home a trio of so-called "new shooters" in Saturday's Grade I Preakness Stakes at Laurel Park -- horses who did not contest the Kentucky Derby, the first leg of the Triple Crown, but joined the series for the second leg in Maryland.

Napoleon Solo reemerged as a colt to watch with a victory in the Preakness Stakes.

Napoleon Solo reemerged as a colt to watch with a victory in the Preakness Stakes. Now trainer Chad Summers wants a shot at Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo, whose absence left an underwhelming field at Laurel Park this weekend. “We wish he was here in the Preakness. We were rooting…

the longest odds for a Preakness favorite since the race moved to its current distance of 1 3/16 miles in 1925. Napoleon Solo went off at 7-1.

Napoleon Solo has held off Iron Honor in the stretch to win the Preakness Stakes, rebounding from a pair of fifth-place showings for his first victory of the year.