Paynter (horse)
American Thoroughbred racehorse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paynter (March 4, 2009 ā November 10, 2023) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse noted for a three-year-old racing season that included a second-place finish in the Belmont Stakes and a victory in the Haskell Invitational, cut short by a near-fatal case of colitis requiring abdominal surgery, complicated by laminitis. Most experts believed that even if he survived, his racing days were over. His struggle for life, updated via social media by his owners, gained him a large fan base and earned him the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Moment of the Year and Secretariat Vox Populi Award for 2012.
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Paynter | |
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Sire | Awesome Again |
Grandsire | Deputy Minister |
Dam | Tizso |
Damsire | Cees Tizzy |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | March 4, 2009 |
Died | November 10, 2023 |
Country | United States |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Diamond A Racing Corp |
Owner | Zayat Stables LLC |
Trainer | Bob Baffert |
Record | 11:4-4-0[1] |
Earnings | $1,101,924[1] |
Major wins | |
Haskell Invitational (2012) | |
Awards | |
Secretariat Vox Populi Award (2012) National Thoroughbred Racing Association Moment of the Year (2012) |
His surgery was successful and treatment for laminitis prevented harm to his feet, so he was sent to the Fair Hill Training Center for recovery and rehabilitation. In his four-year-old year, he returned to the track in June 2013, eleven months after his 2012 Haskell victory, winning the first race of his comeback by 4+1ā2 lengths, then running in three more graded stakes races, placing second in two of them, demonstrating his ability to compete against top horses. In November 2013, he ran in the Breeders' Cup Classic and following the race was retired to WinStar Farm to stand at stud beginning with the 2014 breeding season.