A total of 15 stakes at Laurel Park, which hosted last weekend’s Black-Eyed Susan and Preakness Stakes days, has reshaped the Equibase leaderboard among 3-year-olds and older horses. Headlined by Napoleon Solo’s win in the Preakness, the weekend featured plenty of standout performances in stakes races on both the dirt and turf.

At odds of 7.90-1, Napoleon Solo pressed a hot pace set by 4.70-1 favorite Taj Mahal and took over down the stretch to win the 151^st running of the Preakness by 1 ¼ lengths for trainer Chad Summers first career Preakness win with his first starter in the race. Napoleon Solo was undefeated as a 2-year-old, including a 6 ½-length romp in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes, but was unplaced in two starts as a 3-year-old going into the Preakness. With the first win of his 3-year-old campaign, Napoleon Solo moved into third among 3-year-old males and fifth overall with $1,241,520 in 2026 purse earnings.

In Friday’s Grade 2 George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, the weekend’s premier race for 3-year-old fillies, My Miss Mo earned her first graded stakes victory with a hard-fought victory by 1 ¾ lengths for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. with Tyler Gaffalione aboard. My Miss Mo finished second in both the Davona Dale Stakes Presented by Inglis Digital USA and the Gulfstream Park Oaks Presented by City National Bank. She was scratched from the Longines Kentucky Oaks and targeted the Black-Eyed Susan, where she proved best. With two seconds and a Grade 2 win for the year, My Miss Mo moved into 12^th in the 3-year-old filly division and 71^st overall with $288,200 in 2026 earnings.

In the race prior to the Black-Eyed Susan, Joseph won the Pimlico Special Stakes with Navajo Warrior, who like stablemate My Miss Mo, also earned his first career graded stakes victory. Navajo Warrior set the pace in the 1 3/16-mile Pimlico Special and drew clear to win by 2 ¾ lengths, earning a 107 Equibase Speed Figure under Flavien Prat. Navajo Warrior joined the Joseph barn in August 2025 and has since taken five trips to the winner’s circle from seven starts. In his 5-year-old campaign, he has two wins and a third from three starts with earnings of $205,200, which ranks 35^th among older males.

The Grade 3 Miss Preakness Stakes, also on the card on Friday for 3-year-old fillies, brought an upset with Peach Tie rallying from last to first for a 1 ½-length victory. Trained by Brittany Russell and ridden by her husband Sheldon Russell, Peach Tree is no stranger to the winner’s circle at Laurel Park, where she is a now career 4-for-5 with three stakes wins. With $170,000 in 2026 earnings, Peach Tie now ranks 32^nd among 3-year-old fillies.

Burnham Square wins Louisville Stakes (Coady Media)

On the Downs After Dark card at Churchill Downs on Saturday evening, 2025 Kentucky Derby contender Burnham Square became a multiple graded stakes winner on both dirt and turf with his 4 ¾-length win in the Grade 3 Louisville Stakes, earning a 107 speed figure and surpassing $2 million in career earnings.

Despite just 16 starts, Saffie Joseph Jr. had quite the week with five wins (31%), including stakes wins in the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, Pimlico Special Stakes, Monroe Stakes, and the Mr. Steele Stakes. After amassing more than $500,000 in purse earnings last week, Joseph became the second trainer this year to surpass the $10-million plateau in purse earnings and remains second in behind Brad Cox with $11,779,457.

Irad Ortiz Jr. continues to dominate the rider standings, becoming the first jockey in North America this year to eclipse $15 million in earnings. Ortiz took nine trips to the winner’s circle last week with $749,850 in earnings. Over the weekend, he had two stakes wins at Laurel in the Allaire DuPont Distaff Stakes aboard Margie’s Intention and the Jim McKay Turf Sprint Stakes with Chasing Liberty. On Sunday, Ortiz returned to Churchill Downs and won five consecutive races to bring his yearly earnings to $15,083,711. Ortiz set the single-season North American earnings record in 2025 with $40,529,104 and is on pace to eclipse that record in 2026. He is nearly $4 million ahead of his earnings pace from this point last year.

Last week’s top trainer by earnings — Chad Summers: 2 wins, $1,277,730

Last week’s top jockey by earnings — Paco Lopez: 10 wins, $1,491,020

Last week’s top Equibase Speed Figure in a graded stakes — Navajo Warrior, Burnham Square: 107

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