Gold Square's Napoleon Solo (c, 2, Liam's Map–Atomic Blonde, by Scat Daddy), a very sharp debut winner of an auction-restricted maiden special weight sprinting at Saratoga Aug. 8, put on a dominating display in Saturday's 'Win and You're In' GI Champagne S. going a one-turn mile at the Belmont at the Big A meeting.Sent to the front by Joel Rosario over a surface playing very kind to speed, the 6-1 chance cleared from his outside draw and led through fractions of :22.53 and :44.24 with imposing 2-5 favorite It's Our Time (Not This Time) in hot pursuit. Napoleon Solo began to give them the slip on the far turn with It's Our Time all in and showed no mercy from there, continuing on with authority to score by 6 1/2 lengths.Saratoga upset debut winners Talkin (Good Magic) and Universe (Global Campaign) were second and third, respectively.It's Our Time, a no-brainer 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' after airing by 17 3/4 lengths with a 94 Beyer Speed Figure on debut at the Spa Aug. 16, tired to finish a disappointing fourth.The final time was 1:34.57.“You don't have a lot of horses that go :44 and change and keep going,” winning trainer Chad Summers said. “He did it, it wasn't really the plan, but Joel (Rosario) said he just broke so easy and he had so much horse in hand, he goes, 'with the way the track is playing, let's just go ahead.'”Summers continued, “He's a 2-year-old, he's a nice horse, he's developing, Al [Gold] is such a great owner, we work together to make that plan and think what is best for the horse now and for the long-term.”The Champagne was a 'Win and You're In' for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile. See you at Del Mar Oct. 31?“I don't know,” Summers said. “Look, (with) a race like this, you want to go. But that was a fast time with a young horse who has only run two races, we will look at all the numbers, see how the numbers come back, get together with Al. Once again the Breeders' Cup is in California, I wish it was on the East Coast once or twice. Get on a plane and get over there, there's a lot of things to take under consideration.”Pedigree Notes:Napoleon Solo, a $40,000 Keeneland September steal for Al Gold's Gold Square, becomes the seventh Grade I winner for Liam's Map. He is bred on the same Liam's Map x Scat Daddy cross as GI Blue Grass S. winner Burnham Square. Atomic Blonde, a stakes-winning homebred for the Gunthers, had a colt by Authentic this year and was bred back to Stage Raider.Sales history: $40,000 yrl '24 KEESEP.Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0.O-Gold Square LLC; B-John D. Gunther & Eurowest Bloodstock (KY); T-Chad Summers. NAPOLEON SOLO dominates in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes under @JRosarioJockey for trainer @horsesummers, punching his ticket to the @BreedersCup Juvenile! pic.twitter.com/afe73Kw7Yn— NYRA () (@TheNYRA) October 4, 2025The post ‘Napoleon’ Dynamite: Liam’s Map Colt Napoleon Solo Romps in Champagne appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.