Haskell Stakes Results: How Baby Vino Upset the Favorites at 28/1

Published on: July 18, 2026

By: Miles HenryFact Checked

Before the race: I broke down the 2026 Haskell field, pace setup, contenders, and betting angles in my original preview. This article picks up where that left off — showing how the race actually unfolded, how Baby Vino ended up winning at 28/1, and where the result lined up with (and diverged from) what I wrote beforehand.

2026 Haskell Stakes Finish Order

Official finish order, 2026 Haskell Stakes (Grade 1, $1 million, 1⅛ miles, Monmouth Park).

Finish	Horse	Morning-Line Odds	How My Preview Read It
1st	Baby Vino	15/1 (went off at 28/1)	Won the Pegasus on this same Monmouth surface — the form angle I ultimately bet
2nd	Napoleon Solo	5/2	Preakness winner; projected to share the pace, ended up controlling it alone
3rd	Iron Honor	3/1	Called it my top structural value pre-race — ran to that shape
4th	The Puma	7/2	My exacta partner; already beaten Further Ado head-to-head, but drew into the pace role off a long layoff
5th	Further Ado	2/1 (favorite)	My top pick; the Kentucky-only win pattern I flagged showed up again
6th	Star Sweeper	30/1	Flagged as a deep, cheap longshot only — ran true to that price
7th	Ocelli	6/1	Still winless after ten straight tries against this level

How the Race Actually Played Out

The pace shaped up close to how I read it after Crude Velocity’s scratch: with the field’s most committed pure front-runner gone, Napoleon Solo took over the lead role rather than sharing it with The Puma as I’d projected — Paco Lopez put him on the front end and never let him go, the same trip that won him the Preakness. That left Further Ado and Iron Honor to stalk from behind a pace that held up better than a genuinely uncontested lead usually does.

Further Ado came in as the 2-1 favorite off a real case — the Blue Grass romp, the bounce-back Matt Winn win, his own trainer calling him the best two-turn 3-year-old in the country. But the pattern I flagged in the preview was the honest concern: every win of his career had come in Kentucky, and Cyberknife’s identical path to a Haskell win in 2022 wasn’t enough precedent to overcome it this time. He finished fifth.

The Puma, my value play underneath on the strength of his head-to-head Tampa Bay Derby win over Further Ado, drew into the pace role instead of getting his usual closing trip off a four-month layoff, and finished fourth. Iron Honor — the horse my own key takeaways called “the top structural value” in the field, built around Brown’s patient campaign and a pace that suited his rating style — ran exactly to that shape and finished third.

Baby Vino getting there first wasn’t the shock a 28/1 price suggests, either. He’d already shown he handles the Monmouth dirt specifically, winning the Pegasus Stakes by 10¾ lengths over this same surface three weeks earlier — the exact form angle I flagged in the preview, for reasons that had nothing to do with pace projections.

Watching it live, Baby Vino started making his move before they even hit the far turn — early enough that I thought for a second he’d gone too soon. He didn’t back off, though; he kept getting stronger through the turn, and when he drew up alongside Napoleon Solo, I watched Lopez ask his horse for more. Napoleon Solo answered the call, but Baby Vino was simply too much horse to stay with. The fractions tell part of that story too: a :24 opening quarter and a :48 half-mile created a manageable pace that let the leaders stay involved while giving a horse with a strong finishing kick a real chance to make his move.

What This Means for the Breeders’ Cup Classic Picture

Baby Vino now has an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Classic field at Keeneland on October 31, regardless of how his fall prep season goes — that’s the value of a “Win and You’re In” race. His Monmouth form is proven; the bigger question is how he handles a different track and a deeper, older field in the fall, and whether that same ability translates against the kind of competition he’ll face in the Classic.

I’d like to see him prove he can win off a more demanding early pace than the honest one he got here, since that’s the kind of trip he won’t always draw against tougher company. Napoleon Solo’s runner-up finish keeps him squarely in the division’s top tier after the Preakness, and Iron Honor’s third continues the pattern of finishing right behind him — first at Laurel, now at Monmouth.

Further Ado’s fifth-place finish raises a real question about whether his form outside Kentucky is a genuine concern rather than a one-off Derby trip, and whether Brad Cox needs to find him a race back on familiar ground before targeting the Classic picture seriously.

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