Carl Lizza

Agave Kiss Retired, Booked to Tapit

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• March 19, 2013
• Thoroughbred Breeding, Northeast Region

Agave Kiss, a New York graded stakes winner who won her first six starts, has been retired from racing and is booked to major sire Tapit.

NE/Mid-Atlantic Regional: Cliff Dwellers

• By Frank Angst
• January 8, 2013
• Northeast Region

O'Cains continue Lizza legacy at Highcliff Stallions at Mill Creek Farm. Download Now

New York Stallion Key Contender Pensioned

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• February 23, 2012
• Thoroughbred Breeding, Northeast Region

Key Contender, a New York grade I winner, has been pensioned from stallion duty at Highcliff Farm near Delanson, N.Y.

Final Phase of Flying Zee Dispersal Set

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• December 21, 2011
• Thoroughbred Sales, Northeast Region

The third and final phase of the dispersal of horses owned by the late Carl Lizza's Flying Zee Stable will be held Jan. 21, 2012, at Lizza's Highcliff Farm near Delanson, N.Y.

F-T Midlantic Winter Mixed Sale Has 395 Lots

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• November 11, 2011
• Thoroughbred Sales, Northeast Region

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 395 lots for its Midlantic winter mixed sale. The number is up 13.2% from last year's total of 349.

Lizza's Legacy Lives On With Pure Gossip

• By Tracy Gantz
• November 2, 2011
• Breeders' Cup, Northeast Region, Kentucky

Carl Lizza in recent years revamped his breeding program to upgrade his stock, but he didn't live long enough to reap the rewards. The New York owner and breeder died just two weeks before Pure Gossip made her racing debut.

Flying Zee Stable to Disperse at Fasig-Tipton

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• October 7, 2011
• Thoroughbred Sales, Northeast Region, Kentucky

Fasig-Tipton Company has announced that the Estate of Carl Lizza Jr.'s Flying Zee Stable, with Hidden Brook Farm as agent, will disperse the vast majority of its Thoroughbreds at auctions this fall and winter.

Prominent Owner Carl Lizza Dies

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• July 8, 2011
• Northeast Region

Carl Lizza, one of the leading owners on the New York Racing Association circuit for many years, died early in the morning July 8 at his home in Rockaway, N.J. He was 73.

Thunder Puddles Dies at 31

• July 1, 2010
• Thoroughbred Breeding, Northeast Region

New York champion Thunder Puddles, the only New York-bred to sire a New York-bred millionaire, died June 29 at Carl Lizza Jr. and Joseph Bartone's Highcliff Farm near Delanson, N.Y.

Old Warrior Cosmonaut Retired

• By Steve Haskin
• September 9, 2009
• Thoroughbred Racing, Thoroughbred Breeding

Flying Zee Stable's 7-year-old Cosmonaut has been retired following a successful career, in which the son of Lemon Drop Kid-Cosmic Fire, by Capote, won eight of 36 starts for earnings of nearly $1.4 million.

Contessa, Dominguez Capture Belmont Titles

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• July 26, 2009
• Thoroughbred Racing, Northeast Region

Jockey Ramon Dominguez and trainer Gary Contessa continued to dominate the competition in New York. Dominguez ran away with the jockey title for the 64-day spring/summer meet at Belmont Park and Contessa edged Christophe Clement for the training title.

Saratoga Open Sale's Gross Drops

• By Deirdre B. Biles
• August 12, 2008
• Thoroughbred Sales, Northeast Region

A daughter of Red Bullet brought the top price of $30,000 during the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga open yearling sale Aug. 12 in New York.

Good Mood Leaves Fans Smiling With Regret Win

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• June 16, 2007
• Thoroughbred Racing

Good Mood shot through an opening near the hedge and finished courageously in the final eighth of a mile to score a 1 3/4-length victory in Saturday's $228,600 Regret Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 3-year-old fillies on the turf at Churchill Downs.

Pensioned New York Stallion Triocala Dead

• September 28, 2005
• Thoroughbred Breeding

Triocala, a popular New York runner from the early 1980s, was euthanized Aug. 5 at Joe Bartone and Carl Lizza Jr.'s Highcliff Farm near Delanson, N.Y., because of congestive heart failure.

Attendance, Total Handle Dip at Saratoga

• September 5, 2005

Attendance dipped slightly and overall handle was also off for the 36-day season at Saratoga Race Course that ended Sept. 5.

Lizza Reducing Size of Broodmare Band by Selling on NYTB Web Site

• November 20, 2003
• Thoroughbred Sales

Carl Lizza Jr. has decided to reduce his number of broodmares currently at Highcliff Farm from 110 to 70.

Limit Out to Highcliff in New York

• October 17, 2003
• Thoroughbred Breeding

Grade II winner Limit Out will stand the 2004 breeding season at Carl Lizza Jr. and Joe Bartone's Highcliff Farm near Delanson, N.Y., as property of a partnership.

Cause of Ocala Stud Fire Unknown, But Not Suspicious

• March 11, 2002

A state fire investigator said an Ocala Stud training barn was so severely damaged in a blaze, which killed 22 horses, that the cause may never be known. Still, the fire is not considered suspicious in any way.

Electricity Possible Cause of Fatal Barn Fire

• By Eric Mitchell
• February 25, 2002

Leading New York owner Carl Lizza hoped to broaden the scope of his mostly homebred racing stable by buying a large number of yearlings in 2001. His hopes perished in a late-afternoon barn fire Feb. 23 that killed 22 horses in training at Mike O'Farrell's Ocala Stud in Florida.