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Paynter (foaled March 4 2009) 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.