page_title: Paynter (horse)
section_title: Pedigree
hierarchical_section_title: Paynter (horse) / Pedigree
caption_attribution_description: English: Paynter getting ready for his daily outing. July 2015, Winstar Farms
context_page_description: Paynter is an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse notable for a promising 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, regularly 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. His surgery was successful, and innovative 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, almost eleven months after his 2012 Haskell victory, winning the first race of his comeback by ​4 ¹⁄₂ lengths, then running in three more graded stakes races, placing second in two of them, demonstrating his ability to compete against top horses.
context_section_description: Paynter was sired by the Canadian-bred Awesome Again, winner of the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic. At stud, Awesome Again has sired many stakes winners including Ghostzapper, who was 2004 Breeders' Cup winner and 2004 Horse of the Year, and two-time Santa Anita Handicap winner Game On Dude, another Bob Baffert-trained horse.  Paynter is closely related to 2013 Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow; the two horses share the same sire and are out of full sisters. Both horses have pedigrees outcrossed for four generations, with very little inbreeding, 4x5x5 to Northern Dancer.
  Paynter's dam is Tizso, a full sister to Tiznow, who was 2000 Horse of the Year and won the Breeders' Cup Classic twice. Tizso's dam, Cee's Song, is credited with raising the respect breeders have for her female breeding line, Thoroughbred family 26, as one of the top distaff lines in America.  Five full siblings out of Cee's Song were either race winners or the dams of race winners: Paynter's dam Tizso and Oxbow's dam Tizamazing both foaled stakes winners, and Tiznow, Tizbud and Tizdubai all won stakes races.  Another Cee's Song son, the gelding Budroyale, was second in the 1999 Breeders' Cup Classic.
caption: Paynter in retirement
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