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Having fun training the pinto in the pen (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ballpoint

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'the pen' is the definition.
(ballpoint is a kind of pen)

'having fun training the pinto in' is the wordplay.
'having fun' becomes 'ball' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'training' is an anagram indicator (to train can mean to grow something into a shape).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'pinto' anagrammed gives 'point'.
'ball' going inside 'point' is 'BALLPOINT'.

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(Other definitions for ballpoint that I've seen before include "Type of pen" , "Writer" , "Biro" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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