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A Bit of Both rocketed out of the gate and dispatched Saint Moon at the top of the stretch to draw off to a 3 1/2-length win in the $125,000 OBS Filly & Mare Sprint S. on the special Nov. 26 card at the central Florida track. The 3-year-old filly, who won a pair of […]

Lazy Daisy will break from the middle of the gate in Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) after drawing post 5 in the field of nine 2-year-olds. The Juvenile Fillies is race 7 on Friday, with a post time of 2:32 p.m. PT. The daughter of Paynter earned her way into the 1 […]

Lazy Daisy shipped from her southern California base for Saturday’s $200,000 Pocahontas S. (G2) at Churchill Downs, and the 2-year-old Paynter filly rewarded her connections with a gritty 1 1/4-length win in the 1 1/16-mile contest. Trained by Doug O’Neill, the Lazy Daisy’s victory earned an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) […]

Vangilder came flying late to score a three-quarter length victory in Saturday’s $70,000 Charles Taylor Derby, the first stakes start and win for the 3-year-old Paynter colt (VIDEO). The winner is the fifth stakes winner this year for his sire, who is fourth on the Third-Crop sires list with over $2.7 million in progeny earnings […]

A Bit of Both is now a stakes winner on turf and dirt after a 2 1/2-length win in Saturday’s $75,000 Honey Bee S. at Monmouth Park. The 3-year-old Paynter filly has won five of six lifetime starts by an average margin of just over six lengths. After taking the Game Face S. at Gulfstream […]

WinStar Farm’s and Blazing Meadows homebred Diamond Dust chalked up his fourth straight win in Saturday’s $75,000 Tall Stacks S. at Belterra Park. The 3-year-old son of Paynter now has six wins in eight starts, four of them in stakes, and has earned $283,100. As he has done in all of his victories, Diamond Dust […]

The praise flowed for both Paynter and his $450,000 filly following her time in the ring during Wednesday’s session of the OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in Training.  One of the first horses in the ring on Wednesday, hip No. 312 set the tone with a lively round of bidding before being secured by Mike […]

A Bit of Both cruised to a three-length victory in the $75,000 Game Face S. Saturday afternoon at Gulfstream Park, the first stakes start for the 3-year-old Paynter filly. In her last three starts, A Bit of Both has been on front at every point of call while winning by a combined 16 lengths. Owned […]

Diamond Dust collected his third straight win and third lifetime stakes victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Howard B. Noonan S. at Mahoning Valley. The 3-year-old son of Paynter has never been worse than second in seven lifetime starts, with five wins, and earnings of $238,100 for the owner/breeder tandem of WinStar Farm and Blazing Meadows Farm. […]

Knicks Go, winner of last autumn’s Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland, was named the Maryland-bred Horse of the Year for 2018 at the Feb. 12 Renaissance Awards in Baltimore. Knicks Go, who also finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) in November at Churchill Downs, was bred by Angie Moore, who operates Green Mount […]