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WinStar Farm’s Grade 1-winning millionaire Paynter, whose story of perseverance captivated the racing world in 2012, had to be euthanized on Friday, Nov. 10, due to lameness, the farm announced today. The 2009 son of Awesome Again captured the 2012 Haskel Invitational S. (G1) in dominant fashion and finished a close second in that year’s […]

Diamond Dust skipped over the sloppy Thistledown surface to win Saturday’s $100,000 Honey Jay S. by 1 ¾-lengths. The victory was the fifth added-money victory for the son of Paytner, who has seven stakes horses this year and has accounted for 50 stakes horses lifetime. Diamond Dust was three-wide for most of the six furlong […]

Hybrid Eclipse made up a double-digit deficit in the final three furlongs of Saturday’s $100,000 Caesar’s Wish S. at Laurel Park to give the 5-year-old daughter of Paynter her fourth lifetime stakes win. Since winning last year’s renewal of the one-mile Caesar’s on the front end, Hybrid Eclipse has turned into a come-from-behind runner with […]

Misty Mauve collected her first stakes win in Saturday’s $100,000 Dahlia S. at Laurel Park, pulling clear in the final furlong to take the one-mile race by 2 ¼-lengths. The 4-year-old Paynter filly was making her stakes debut following an April 7 win over the same track and distance as the Dahlia. She broke well […]

Paynter’s Hybrid Eclipse kicked off her 5-year-old campaign in style Saturday at Laurel Park with a 2 ¼-length victory over Award Wanted in the $100,000 Nellie Morse S. Hybrid Eclipse broke alertly then was rated off the pacesetters Runaway Monet and Pistol Liz Ablazen down the backstretch as they posted fractions of :23.92 and :48.23. Only […]

Paynter’s Hybrid Eclipse made short work of her rivals in Saturday’s $100,000 Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes at Laurel, winning the 1 1/16-mile test by three lengths in an impressive performance. Owned by The Elkstone Group and trained by Brittany Russell, Hybrid Eclipse raced in seventh position early. She raced four deep around the first […]

Paynter’s six-time listed winner Miss Leslie is now a graded stakes winner following her dominating performance in Saturday’s $500,000 Delaware H. (G2). The 4-year-old filly drew off in the stretch for a 12-length victory in her first attempt at 1 ¼-miles. The dark bay filly handled the sloppy going easily under a confident rider from […]

Hybrid Eclipse pulled away strongly through the Laurel Park stretch to score her first stakes victory in the $100,000 Caesar’s Wish S. on July 2. Third in the June 8 Obeah S. at Delaware Park, the 4-year-old Paynter filly is now 5-2-2 in 14 starts and has earned $267,324 for Magic Oaks. Hybrid Eclipse broke […]

Paynter’s 4-year-old filly and veteran stakes performer has now won a half-dozen added-money races after a dramatic victory in the June 8 Obeah S. at Delaware Park. Miss Leslie was last in the field of six fillies and mares for the first five furlongs of the 1 1/16-mile trip. She switched to the outside on […]

Miss Leslie chalked up her fifth career stakes win on Sunday at Monmouth Park, rolling to a four-length win in the $100,000 Serena’s Song S. Miss Leslie, who placed earlier this year in the Ladies’ S. at Aqueduct, is one of Paynter’s seven stakes horses in 2022. After tracking the pace through the first half-mile, […]