Wayward Lass (USA)
April 13, 1978 – July 10, 2003
Hail the Pirates (USA) x Young Mistress (USA), by Third Martini (USA)
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April 13, 1978 – July 10, 2003
Hail the Pirates (USA) x Young Mistress (USA), by Third Martini (USA)
Family 25
One of the most consistent sophomore fillies of 1981, Wayward Lass represented a successful cross between a stamina-oriented sire and a mare with more speed in her pedigree. Unfortunately, she was unable to pass on her own high-class racing ability as a broodmare.
Race record
25 starts, 9 wins, 7 seconds, 6 thirds, US$435,237
1980:
1981:
Honors
Eclipse Award, American champion 3-year-old filly (1981)
Assessments
Rated at 111 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap for American juveniles of 1980, 9 pounds below champion Heavenly Cause.
Highweighted at 126 pounds on the Daily Racing Form's Free Handicap for American 3-year-old fillies of 1981, 1 pound above Heavenly Cause and Truly Bound.
As an individual
A dark bay or brown mare, Wayward Lass sometimes became anxious and difficult to handle in the paddock but was tenacious on the track. She was retired after suffering a minor leg injury in a September 1981 allowance race at Belmont Park.
As a producer
Wayward Lass produced 14 named foals, of which 12 started and 10 won. Her only foal of any importance as a racer or producer was her 1983 In Reality filly Waywardly, a winner whose only named foal was the restricted stakes winner With It (by Groovy).
Connections
Foaled in Florida, Wayward Lass was bred by National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame trainer Horatio Luro. She was owned by Flying Zee Stables, the nom de course of Carl Lizza Jr. and Herbert Hochreiter, after being purchased from the 1980 Florida Breeders' Sales Company's Hialeah sale of 2-year-olds in training for US$30,000. She was trained by Jose Martin. In foal to Noble Nashua, Wayward Lass sold to Aston Upthorpe Stud for $2.35 million at the 1983 Keeneland November mixed sale after producing her first foal, the In Reality filly Waywardly, for Flying Zee Stables. She then went through several more owners before being given to Gus Schoenborn in 2002. She was found dead in her stall of what was diagnosed as a heart attack at Contemporary Stallions, Coxsackie, New York, in July 2003; she was in foal to City Zip at the time of her death.
Pedigree notes
From the first crop of 1976 Gulfstream Park Handicap (USA-G1) winner Hail the Pirates (by Hail to Reason), Wayward Lass is inbred 5x4 to 1933 English dual Classic winner and six-time English champion sire Hyperion. She is also inbred 5x5 to four-time American champion sire Sir Gallahad III. She is a half sister to stakes-placed La Pampa (by Go Marching), dam of Grade 3-placed stakes winner Buchman (by Bucksplasher) and second dam of Peruvian Group 2 winner Sucre, and to Wayward Mistress (by Exclusive Ribot), dam of stakes winners Miss Mercedes (by Mercedes Won) and Brian's Dancer (by Robyn Dancer).
Wayward Lass' dam Young Mistress is an unraced daughter of 1967 Queens County Handicap winner Third Martini, a very fast horse who equaled the 7-furlong track record at Saratoga. She is a half sister to 1974 Massachusetts Handicap (USA-G2) winner Billy Come Lately (by Clandestine) and to stakes-placed Pampa Grey (by Grey Dawn II), dam of multiple stakes winner Maxim Gorky (by Ack Ack). She is also a half sister to Julieta (by Rixdal), dam of restricted stakes winner Nick the Cypriot (by Debussy).
Young Mistress and her siblings were produced from the Argentine import Fazana, a half sister by the Embrujo horse Fierabras to 1964 Argentine Horse of the Year Charolais (by Embrujo's champion sire son Basajaun). Fazana, in turn, was produced from Averroa, a daughter of the Prince Rose horse Airy Prince.
Books and media
Wayward Lass is profiled in Chapter 11 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Fun facts
Last updated: October 20, 2021
Race record
25 starts, 9 wins, 7 seconds, 6 thirds, US$435,237
1980:
- Won Schuylkill Stakes (USA, 6FD, Keystone)
- 2nd Treetop Stakes (USA, 6FD, Aqueduct)
1981:
- Won Coaching Club American Oaks (USA-G1, 12FD, Belmont; by disqualification of Real Prize)
- Won Mother Goose Stakes (USA-G1, 9FD, Belmont)
- Won Ruthless Stakes (USA-G3, 8.5FD, Aqueduct)
- Won Busanda Stakes (USA, 8.5FD, Aqueduct)
- Won Searching Stakes (USA, 8.5FD, Aqueduct)
- 2nd Ashland Stakes (USA-G2, 8.5FD, Keeneland)
- 2nd Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (USA-G2, 8.5FD, Pimlico)
- 3rd Fantasy Stakes (USA-G1, 8.5FD, Oaklawn)
- 3rd Kentucky Oaks (USA-G1, 8.5FD, Churchill Downs)
- 3rd Level Best Stakes (USA, 8.5FD, Aqueduct)
- 3rd Rosetown Stakes (USA, 6FD, Aqueduct)
Honors
Eclipse Award, American champion 3-year-old filly (1981)
Assessments
Rated at 111 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap for American juveniles of 1980, 9 pounds below champion Heavenly Cause.
Highweighted at 126 pounds on the Daily Racing Form's Free Handicap for American 3-year-old fillies of 1981, 1 pound above Heavenly Cause and Truly Bound.
As an individual
A dark bay or brown mare, Wayward Lass sometimes became anxious and difficult to handle in the paddock but was tenacious on the track. She was retired after suffering a minor leg injury in a September 1981 allowance race at Belmont Park.
As a producer
Wayward Lass produced 14 named foals, of which 12 started and 10 won. Her only foal of any importance as a racer or producer was her 1983 In Reality filly Waywardly, a winner whose only named foal was the restricted stakes winner With It (by Groovy).
Connections
Foaled in Florida, Wayward Lass was bred by National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame trainer Horatio Luro. She was owned by Flying Zee Stables, the nom de course of Carl Lizza Jr. and Herbert Hochreiter, after being purchased from the 1980 Florida Breeders' Sales Company's Hialeah sale of 2-year-olds in training for US$30,000. She was trained by Jose Martin. In foal to Noble Nashua, Wayward Lass sold to Aston Upthorpe Stud for $2.35 million at the 1983 Keeneland November mixed sale after producing her first foal, the In Reality filly Waywardly, for Flying Zee Stables. She then went through several more owners before being given to Gus Schoenborn in 2002. She was found dead in her stall of what was diagnosed as a heart attack at Contemporary Stallions, Coxsackie, New York, in July 2003; she was in foal to City Zip at the time of her death.
Pedigree notes
From the first crop of 1976 Gulfstream Park Handicap (USA-G1) winner Hail the Pirates (by Hail to Reason), Wayward Lass is inbred 5x4 to 1933 English dual Classic winner and six-time English champion sire Hyperion. She is also inbred 5x5 to four-time American champion sire Sir Gallahad III. She is a half sister to stakes-placed La Pampa (by Go Marching), dam of Grade 3-placed stakes winner Buchman (by Bucksplasher) and second dam of Peruvian Group 2 winner Sucre, and to Wayward Mistress (by Exclusive Ribot), dam of stakes winners Miss Mercedes (by Mercedes Won) and Brian's Dancer (by Robyn Dancer).
Wayward Lass' dam Young Mistress is an unraced daughter of 1967 Queens County Handicap winner Third Martini, a very fast horse who equaled the 7-furlong track record at Saratoga. She is a half sister to 1974 Massachusetts Handicap (USA-G2) winner Billy Come Lately (by Clandestine) and to stakes-placed Pampa Grey (by Grey Dawn II), dam of multiple stakes winner Maxim Gorky (by Ack Ack). She is also a half sister to Julieta (by Rixdal), dam of restricted stakes winner Nick the Cypriot (by Debussy).
Young Mistress and her siblings were produced from the Argentine import Fazana, a half sister by the Embrujo horse Fierabras to 1964 Argentine Horse of the Year Charolais (by Embrujo's champion sire son Basajaun). Fazana, in turn, was produced from Averroa, a daughter of the Prince Rose horse Airy Prince.
Books and media
Wayward Lass is profiled in Chapter 11 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Fun facts
- Wayward Lass figured in a court case affecting the 1981 Kentucky Derby (USA-G1), won by Pleasant Colony. After Carl Lizza entered both Noble Nashua and Wayward Lass in the Derby, taking the last two slots under the Derby's 20-horse limit (which at that time went by a horse's total earnings to determine eligibility), the owners of Flying Nashua and Mythical Ruler went to court the next day, alleging that the race rules as then written limited the field to 20 entries rather than 20 horses. A circuit judge agreed with them and ordered both colts to be included in the Derby field. Because of the legal case, which was not resolved before advance wagering on the Derby was to have been conducted, Churchill Downs could not offer the advance wagering option on Derby Eve and lost an estimated $350,000 in wagering revenue, as well as paying the salaries of 60 mutuel clerks hired for the day and left with nothing to do. The track also had to trash the Derby inserts that had been intend to go in the Friday race programs, eating the printing costs for 50,000 copies. To add insult to injury so far as Churchill Downs was concerned, Lizza scratched Wayward Lass from the Derby field after the filly drew post 20 in the post position draw and elected to run her in the Kentucky Oaks (USA-G1) instead, leaving a Derby field of 21. None of the horses involved in the dispute had any influence on the Derby outcome as Flying Nashua finished eighth, Noble Nashua finished ninth and Mythical Ruler ran 17th.
- As a side note to the court case, Lizza denied rumors that he had entered Wayward Lass in the Kentucky Derby just to keep jockey Angel Cordero Jr. out of the race after Cordero took the mount on Flying Nashua rather than on Lizza's Noble Nashua, a colt Cordero had been riding. Lizza pointed out that it had been no secret for weeks that he had been considering a Derby start for the filly if she got a favorable post position and that he lost $4,000 when he scratched her due to her poor post assignment.
- Tampa Bay Downs hosts a stakes race for fillies and mares aged 4 and over in Wayward Lass's honor.
Last updated: October 20, 2021