Interesting. I wonder who is paying for the vet bill.

probably bodemeister.

Sunday night update around 7:00pm Keep improving, Paynter! :tro:

Wow! Excellent News!

Just ... wow. :tro: :)

Monday afternoon:

Update Monday morning:

I really hope he survives all this....and to ever come back and race, that would be a HUGE bonus.

It's a bit ironic that Bodemeister was never at death's door and they retired him rather than wait for him to return as a 4 year old.

Paynter was at death's door, yet he seems enthusiastic about bringing him back...

I'm glad Paynter is improving though.

No he wouldn't have. Silver Charm at the end of the Belmont was a horse that thought he'd done what he had to do and nobody else was coming.

Regarding Zayat and the Travers push, it baffled me that a horse with his issues before that race would've been flown back anywhere. Horses like being home, I get it, and Baffert wants to see him regularly with his own eyes, but I'm not a fan of treating them like transcontinental yo-yos even though I see it work. Just feels like unnecessary stress to frequently ship East, run, then ship right back, but maybe I'm just projecting my own thoughts of jet lag (Probably am, it's not like Baffert isn't successful doing it). After illness #1, I assumed they'd wait for a later race as the Travers was an obvious no-go. Then they try to make it. That was a bizarre call. Steve's right. I don't pat Zayat on the back when I think about how Paynter's doing. I mentally give Paynter a pat on the neck for being alive.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.

You should watch again. TG blew by him like SC was standing still.

No rotation in the feet is great news regarding the laminitis.

And Touch Gold was best at the Belmont. And he was best in the Preakness. That doesnt mean Silver Charm was not a great horse... that was a great crop of horses. Even the Captain had some good closing speed.

No telling how great Silver Charm really was because of how he always waited on horses. If he didn't do that Touch Gold would have never even got close to him. Mc Carron knew that and went 10 wide for a reason.

http://twitter.com/jazz3162

Apparently he's got a mild fever again. Zayat tweeted that he's eating well and comfortable, but I doubt he's excited about any change in temp. At least the diarrhea isn't back.

No further updates this evening, except wishing everyone happy and healthy New Year.

In the picture MMSC posted, you can see the hematomas (clots) in the jugular from the catheter, hopefully the mild fever is just "residual stuff" resolving and healing.

anything new?

Doesn't look like there's anything to report. Zayat and his son Justin haven't tweeted today. I did a quick search, but I didn't see anything from anybody else.

ok, thanks. i'd looked a bit and didn't see a thing either. oh well, they say no news is good news.

I would imagine it's quiet because of the holiday... it doesn't seem like they update on Saturdays (either) so that's probably it. :)

From the tweet:

<<paynter up @JustinZayat good night last nigth no fever all blood work good ,very comfortablehe is out now glazing good response for new med>>

I know it's just a typo, but I now have a mental image of Paynter sitting in a pottery class, putting the finishing touches on a project.

Glad the IV antibiotics seem to be working. Cause of intermittent fever can be frustratingly impossible to find sometimes - just treat!

This horse is an iron horse so far - unbelievable :tro: :{>: :)

With my renewed health and sense of vigor, I just started my first pottery class last night too!!

Maybe next week I'll make something for Paynter.

:D

That is awesome. Love it! :D :tro:

... and after that maybe you could sculpt a relief version of this... :p

http://twitter.com/LaFusta/status/24.../photo/1/large

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSI9c...eature=g-all-u

TVG interview with Mr. Zayat.

Various updates today, from 5 and 6 hours ago on A Zayat on Twitter

AWESOME :tro: :) :{>:

Congrats, Team Paynter, hope the good news continues for you all.

http://www.drf.com/news/zayat-paynte...-significantly

just read this on drf, great news.

Yikes. Well, that explains the strange recurrent fever.

Thanks for the update.

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...-at-new-bolton

He's undergoing surgery on his cecum on Wed. Sounds like a pretty good prognosis.

hope surgery goes well, recovery also.

Twitter updates: Good news!

1:00pm or so:

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...hrough-surgery


just saw this on bloodhorse, paynter came thru ok.

the growth they removed- GROSS!! no wonder he was sick.

Yeah my first thought was definitely "yuck!" I gotta wonder what the surgeon did to prevent getting bowled over by that smell. It's gotta be overpowering. A mask just wouldn't do it.

perhaps they become inured to that type of thing after a while? i can only imagine some of the things encountered in that line of work.

infections are so dangerous. what a tough animal...

Great news! :tro:

Keeping a good thought for Paynter, and glad to hear he is improving. Great horse.

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...ton?source=rss


paynter to be released, will go to fair hill for rehab. he's the one in a million who beat the odds against a disease with a very, very low survival rate. great news, best of luck going forward!