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Bootsy’s Hadenough couldn’t have been more impressive in her 9 3/4-length maiden special weight win Nov. 25 at Churchill Downs, winning the six-furlong contest in 1:10.86 under a hand ride by Corey Lanerie. The bay filly is the ninth overall winner for Paynter, who has three stakes horses, including black type winner Renaisance Frolic, among […]

Paint Dakota pulled away to a 2 3/4-length maiden win Nov. 17 at Hawthorne in her second lifetime start to become the latest winner from Grade 1 winner Paynter’s first crop of runners. The 2-year-old bay filly races in the name of Alice Mettler and was bred in Kentucky by Three Lyons Racing LLC. She […]

Rockin Jo dug in late to hold off Mr. President by a neck in his maiden special weight win Saturday over the Aquedcut turf course. He is Paynter’s seventh winner over the past two months, as his first-crop offspring show their true abilities as the races get longer late in the 2-year-old season. Paynter, whose […]

Renaisance Frolic found his way through a narrow opening at the top of the stretch to capture Saturday’s $75,000 Armed Forces S. at Gulfstream Park to become freshman sire Paynter’s first stakes winner. Paynter has 75% stakes horses from starters this year, the highest percentage of any First-Crop Sire standing in Kentucky. Renaisance Frolic, who […]

Queen Mum flew past her foes in the stretch to win her debut by a widening length and a half Thursday afternoon at Churchill Downs (VIDEO). The filly is the latest September success for first-crop sire Paynter, who got his first stakes horse when the filly Dark Artist placed in the Sorority S. on Sept. […]

Renaisance Frolic scooted up the rail and outran Miago in the stretch to claim a nose victory in a one-mile Gulfstream Park maiden special weight on the turf on Aug. 12. The bay colt is Paynter’s second maiden special weight winner in the past two weeks, joining the very impressive filly Dark Artist, who was […]

The cleverly-named Dark Artist became freshman sire Paynter’s first winner Sunday at Monmouth Park with a 1 ½-length score in a six-furlong maiden special weight affair for 2-year-old fillies. Dark Artist found herself along the rail after the first furlong despite breaking from post five in the seven-horse field. Tucked neatly in third around the […]

Paynter’s 2-year-olds continue to bring top prices in the sales ring, the latest a $270,000 colt during the second day of the May 22-23 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training sale. From the first crop of the WinStar stallion, the bay juvenile was consigned by Paul Sharp, agent, while Mike Ryan, agent came away the winning […]

Paynter’s personal high-water water mark of the April 25-28 OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in Training came Thursday when James Bashor submitted a winning bid of $250,000 for the dark bay colt. Price Thoroughbreds LLC was the consignor of hip No. 657, who is out of the stakes-winning Aptitude mare La Concerto. The Kentucky-bred had […]

A colt by Paynter out of Grade 1 winner Awesome Humor sold for $200,000 during the final day of the March 14-15 OBS Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training. The bay juvenile, hip No. 357, was consigned by Paul Sharp, agent sold to prominent buyers Alex and JoAnn Lieblong. Awesome Humor was a three-time graded stakes […]