Napoleon Solo took home the 2026 Preakness Stakes on Saturday, the 151st running of the race.

The favorite in Taj Mahal, the 1 horse, was in the lead from the start until the final turn until Napoleon Solo made his move on the outside and took the lead at the top of the stretch. As Taj Mahal fell off, Iron Honor, the 9 horse, snuck up, but the effort ultimately was not enough. 

Napoleon Solo opened at 8-1 and closed at 7-1. Iron Honor, at 8-1, finished second, with Chip Honcho fishing third after closing at 11-1. Ocelli, one of just three horses to run both the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago and Saturday’s Preakness, finished fourth at 8-1.

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A $1 exacta paid out $53.60, while a $1 trifecta brought in $597.10. But someone out there is very lucky, as a $1 superhighfive – picking the top-five finishers in order – paid out $12,015.70.

Even moreso, a 20-cent Pick 6 – picking the winners of the six consecutive races, with the final being the Preakness, paid out $33,842.34.

The race was run without the Kentucky Derby winner for the second year in a row. After Sovereignty did not run the Preakness last year – and wound up winning the Belmont Stakes – the training team of Golden Tempo opted to skip the Maryland race.

From 1960 to 2018, only three Derby winners did not run in the Preakness. Three Derby winners have skipped the Preakness in the last five years, and for the sixth time in eight years, for various reasons, the Triple Crown had already been impossible to accomplish by the time the Preakness even rolled around.

“I understand that fans of the sport or fans of the Triple Crown are disappointed, but the horse is not a machine,” Golden Tempo’s trainer, Cherie DeVaux, told Fox News Digital earlier this week.

Paco Lopez, right, atop Napoleon Solo, edges out Iron Honor, ridden by Flavien Prat, to win the 151st running of the Preakness Stakes horse race, Friday, May 15, 2026, at Laurel Park in Laurel, Maryland. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

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Only three horses from two weeks ago – Ocelli, Robusta, and Incredibolt, were back at the Preakness. Corona de Oro, the 11 horse on Saturday, was scratched well ahead of the Derby, and Great White, who reared up and fell on his back after becoming startled shortly before entering the Derby gate, took the 13 post on Saturday.

The Preakness went off roughly 24 hours after a horse died following the completion of his very first race.

Hit Zero, trained by Brittany Russell, came into the race as the favorite. However, he finished last in the race, which was won by another one of Russell’s horses, Bold Fact — and upon crossing the finish line, Hit Zero reportedly began coughing, dropped to his knees, then put his head down and died.

The Preakness took place at Laurel Park as Pimlico undergoes renovations. It was the first time ever that Pimlico did not host the race, moving roughly 20 miles south.

Paco Lopez, atop Napoleon Solo, wins the 151st running of the Preakness Stakes horse race, Friday, May 15, 2026, at Laurel Park in Laurel, Maryland. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

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The Belmont Stakes, the final Triple Crown race, will take place on June 6. The race will return to Saratoga for a third year in a row as Belmont Park continues to be renovated.

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Athena has been one of the most dominant champions across pro wrestling and that dominance continued on Friday night at Ring of Honor’s Supercard of Honor.

The Ring of Honor Women’s World Championship was up for grabs in a Survival of the Fittest six-way match. Athena had to outlast Billie Starkz, Maya World, Trish Adora, Yuka Sakazaki and Zayda Steel. Chairs, ladders and other foreign objects would enter the match through the night.

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While Athena eliminated Steel early, putting down the rest of her opponents was not an easy task. Athena found herself in a precarious position. Competitors stacked chairs on top of each other and Adora made use of them. She chokeslammed Athena through them during the match.

Sakazaki even tried her best to keep Athena down.

Athena was laid out on a table. Instead of going to the top turnbuckle to hit a splash, Sakazaki springboarded herself off the top rope in the middle of the ring and hit the Magical Girl Splash onto Athena and through the table.

Still, Athena was undeterred.

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Athena needed to go nearly 10-feet up onto a ladder. She flipped off it and hit World with the O-Face. She then pinned World, completing the final elimination.

Athena has now eclipsed 1,253 days as the Ring of Honor women’s world champion.

She told Fightful earlier in the week that her goal was to surpass Bruno Sammartino’s reign as champion. The legendary pro wrestler held the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship for 2,803 days at the height of his career.

“Hey man, when we get to Supercard of Honor this week and I beat the epic Roman Reigns’ last championship run, I just want you to know that I’m gonna be so petty,” she said. “I want everyone to know that we are gonna have the pettiest celebration ever. We’re gonna have kittens, green apple skittles, whiskey, tequila, you name it. … But we are just gonna have a big smorgasbord of a party. We’re gonna have a cookout. It’s gonna be amazing.

“But like I said before, my goal is Bruno Sammartino. Seven years, baby, seven years. But you know what, when you’re ‘forever champion,’ what’s years? What’s years? A lot of people think that might be getting ahead of myself. But at the end of the day, I’ve been champion for over—what is it 1,250 days or something like that? I don’t see this anytime soon.

Athena enters the ring during the women’s pro-wrestling event Stardom at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on Jan. 13, 2025. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

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“Hell, all these girls that are in this match think that they’ve learned something by experiencing Athena, but I’m  ever changing, ever evolving. That’s just the way I’ve always been and there’s not gonna be a harder worker than me. As I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, no man can touch my reign, no woman can live up to my legacy. I am the forever Ring of Honor Women’s World Champion. It’s about time y’all get over it.”

It’s clear that the “Forever Champion” is focused on being just that.

Supercard of Honor results

Bandido and Ryusuke Taguchi compete in a bout during the New Japan Pro-Wrestling ‘Best of Super Jr.’ at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on May 24, 2019. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

• Sammy Guevara def. Action Andretti.
• Rush def. LSG.
• Mina Shirakawa and Queen Aminata def. Janai Kai and Lacey Lane.
• Dezmond Xaver and Myron Reed def. Ariya Daivari and Tony Nese.
• Nigel McGuiness def. Josh Woods.
• Red Velvet def. Viva Van to retain the Ring of Honor Women’s World TV Championship.
• AR Fox def. Lio Rush to retain the Ring of Honor World TV Championship.
• Deonna Purrazzo def. Diamante to retain the Ring of Honor Women’s Pure Championship.
• Lee Moriarty def. Ace Austin to retain the Ring of Honor Pure Championship.
• Dalton Castle, Truth Magnum, Turbo Floyd def. Carlie Bravo, Shane Taylor and Shawn Dean to win the Ring of Honor Six Man Tag Team Championship.
• Mark Davis def. Xelhua to retain the AEW National Championship.
• Bandido def. Blake Christian to retain the Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Championship.

Pakistan closed the opening day of the second Test match with 21 for no loss in six overs, trailing by another 257 runs, after pacers Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas and Hasan Ali shared nine wickets to dismiss Bangladesh for 278 in 77 overs here at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Saturday.

After they were inserted in by Shan Masood, Bangladesh were reeling at 116-6 in 38.2 overs and then 176-7 when Litton Das helped them recover with a 126-run knock off 159 balls as he shared two half-century partnerships with Taijul Islam and Shoriful Islam lower down the order.

Pakistan’s breakout stars of the first Test Azan Awais (13 not out, 20b, 3x4s) and Abdullah Fazal (8 not out, 16b, 1×4) opened the innings with 36 balls to see off the day as incumbent opener Imam-ul-Haq made way for Babar Azam in the playing XI.

Azan and Abdullah saw out the two overs each bowled by Taskin Ahmed and Shoriful Islam, while Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Nahid Rana sent down an over each before stumps were drawn.

Earlier, pacer Khurram Shahzad – playing his seventh Test and first since January 2025 – returned a haul of four for 81 in 17 overs and he was ably supported by the senior spearhead Mohammad Abbas, who backed up his six-wicket match haul from Dhaka Test with figures of 16-3-45-3.

Hasan Ali picked up two for 49 in his 11.5 overs after being stretchered off the field in the eighth over of the day – his first – when his head hit the turf in follow-through attempting to catch the ball.

Sajid Khan replaced Noman Ali and picked up the solitary wicket of Taijul, breaking the 114-ball 60-run stand and giving Pakistan the coveted seventh breakthrough.

Hasan put an end to Litton’s knock before snapping Nahid’s scalp to finish the Bangladesh innings, while Khurram broke the 38-run stand between Litton and Taskin.

At the start, Abbas gave Pakistan the perfect start with a wicket-maiden opening over removing Mahmudul Hasan Joy for a two-ball duck before removing the debutant Tanzid Hasan (26, 34b, 3x4s) as well in the 10th over.

Pakistan pacers put a spanner in the works for the Bangladesh batting line-up as they took five for 72 from last ball of 10th over to second ball of 38th over as Tanzid, Mominul Haque (22, 41b, 3x4s), Najmul Hossain Shanto (29, 74b, 3x4s) and Mushfiqur Rahim (23, 64b, 2x4s) perished after getting starts.

Khurram brought one in from outside off from round the wicket to beat Mominul’s inside edge as the ball crashed into the stumps. Shanto edged one behind to Mohammad Rizwan off Abbas, who plucked his 100th Test wicket overseas becoming just the sixth Pakistan pacer to do so.

Mushfiqur Rahim was pinned leg-before wicket by Khurram four overs after Shanto’s departure, while 10 balls later Khurram induced a catch at deep fine leg with a short ball off Mehidy, which was plucked by Hasan, who had returned to the field earlier towards the end of first session.

Scores in brief:

2nd Test – Day 1 Stumps – Pakistan v Bangladesh at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Sylhet

Bangladesh 278 all out, 77 overs (Litton Das 126, Najmul Hossain Shanto 29, Tanzid Hassan 26, Mushfiqur Rahim 23, Mominul Haque 22; Khurram Shahzad 4-81, Mohammad Abbas 3-45, Hasan Ali 2-49)

Pakistan 21-0, 6 overs (Azan Awais 13 not out)