Clear Vision, the half-brother to $2.7 million-earner Rock N Roll Heaven, topped the 2011 Tattersalls Select Summer Mixed Sale at the Meadowlands in New Jersey
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The five-year-old gelded son of Western Hanover-Artistic Vision, consigned by Northwood Bloodstock Agency, was purchased for $150,000 by Burke Racing LLC of Fredericktown, Pennsylvania.
The stakes competitor, formerly trained by Richard 'Nifty' Norman was originally a $180,000 Lexington Select Sale purchase by John Fielding of Toronto, Ont. and David McDuffee of Delray Beach, Florida, who has put together a record reading 14-16-11 in 89 career starts while banking $772,005. Clear Vision earned top three finishes in the Pennsylvania Sires Stakes, Cane Pace, Tattersalls, Messenger and Bobby Quillen Memorial Pace earlier in his career. In his most recent start on Saturday, August 6, he finished first in a dead-heat in the Open Pace at Yonkers Raceway.
Wayne The Lefty, consigned by Preferred Equine Inc., received the next highest bid for $85,000 by Jeff Bamond of Brick, New Jersey. The four-year-old gelded son of Allamerican Ingot-Camiana, a Junior Trendsetter Series runner-up, has won eight of his 36 career starts to earn $155,507. Bamond also purchased Landmark Stakes winner JK Camelot, consigned by Northwood Bloodstock Agency, for $80,000. The three-year-old Art Major-Blue Ocean Hanover gelding, who was lightly raced as a two-year-old, has won three of his 14 career starts for earnings of $65,306.