Flying Zee Stable

2009 Record: (358-43-51-48)

2009 Earnings: $1,619,338

2009 Win %: 12% In-The-Money %: 39%

Owner(s): Carl Lizza
Born: April 7, 1938
Residence: Rockaway, N.J.
Family: wife Viane
Professional Background: Owner of Landmark Builders, which constructs office and housing complexes in the New York City area and Charleston, S.C.
Web site: www.highcliff.com
Racing Career: Lizza has actively owned horses for more than 30 years under the banner of Flying Zee Stable ... Enjoyed spectacular success in 1981 when he campaigned Wayward Lass, who won the G1 Mother Goose and G1 Coaching Club American Oaks en route to an Eclipse Award as the nation's top 3-year-old filly, and Noble Nashua, whose stakes wins that year also included the Marlboro Cup, Swaps, Dwyer and Jerome ... He sold Wayward Lass, a $30,000 2-year-old sale purchase, in 1983 for $2.3 million while she was in foal to Noble Nashua ... Lizza, who bought Noble Nashua for $49,000 as a yearling, syndicated him as a stallion for $275,000 a share ... Among Lizza's other stakes winners: Key Contender, Screen King, Thunder Achiever, I Lost My Choo, Golden Commander and Kevin's Decision ... Lizza won the 2007 Arlington Handicap with Cosmonaut, the Regret at Churchill with Good Mood and Saratoga’s Cab Calloway with Thunderestimate ... Lizza's New York-based stable has topped the owners standings at New York Racing Association racetracks in recent years ... Flying Zee led all New York owners in wins in 2004 (40 wins) and 2005 (45) ... Lizza's racing success stems largely from a long-time association with trainer Jose Martin, who died in 2006. Flying Zee now uses several trainers, including Carlos Martin (Jose's son), Frank Martin (Jose's father), Phil Serpe and Patrick Biancone, who handled Cosmonaut prior to the 2007 Breeders' Cup, where he finished third in the Mile ... Flying Zee's Pulsion, also trained by Biancone, is a prospect for the 2009 Breeders' Cup Juvenile, following a runner-up effort to Lookin At Lucky in Oak Tree's G1 Norfolk Stakes. ... In 2002, Lizza bought Lion Heart for $100,000 at the Fasig-Tipton October yearling sale, and then sold him for $1.4 million in February 2003 at the Fasig-Tipton 2-year-olds-in-training sale. Lion Heart earned $1,390,800 during his career, which included a win in the Haskell Invitational and a second in the Kentucky Derby, both in 2004
Breeding/Racing Operation: In February 1989, Lizza and partner Joseph Bartone purchased Highcliff Farm in Delanson, N.Y. ... A commercial breeding farm, Highcliff is situated on 800 acres 40 miles southwest of Saratoga Springs in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. The farm is home to five stallions, including Key Contender, Maybry's Boy, Stanislavsky and Stonesider, and between 150 and 200 mares. Highcliff is run by the husband-and-wife team of Suzie and C. Lynwood "Doc" O'Cain ... Lizza stands his stallion, Western Expression, at Highcliff and also keeps 50 mares there.