Wayward Lass

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Wayward Lass (April 13, 1978 – July 10, 2003) was an American champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Florida by Horatio Luro, she was bought in 1980 for $30,000 by Carl Lizza, Jr. and raced as Flying Zee Stable with Herbert Hochreiter. She began racing in 1980, winning her first race in October at Belmont Park and then the Schuylkill Stakes in Pennsylvania. In 1981 she had a stellar season, winning seven of thirteen starts, including the Busanda Stakes, the Searching Stakes, the Ruthless Stakes at Aqueduct, and at Belmont Park the Mother Goose Stakes and the Coaching Club American Oaks. She finished the year as the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (the Eclipse Award) and retired at the end of 1981. Her career record was 25 starts with 9 wins, 7 seconds, and 6 thirds, earning about $435,237. In 1982 she was bred to In Reality and produced a foal in 1983; later she was bred to Noble Nashua and then to City Zip. Most of her foals did not have much racing success. Wayward Lass died of a heart attack on July 10, 2003, while in foal to City Zip near Coxsackie, New York. Her name lives on in the Wayward Lass Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.