TBS 2yo Auction Comments

[Tammy Fox]

I am so happy with the colt I got from the TBS AUction. First off I think his name is cool, Shadow on the Wall and then secondly I only paid $850K for him and he just ran 7 furlongs on turf in a 1.24.50. His two filly half-sbilings went for 3 mil in the previous auctions. His half-brother by Super Light was a multi stakes winner. I am excited to have this colt in my barn and I hope he will follow in his half-brother's hoofprints.

[John Slotmon]

DOH! Stupid me forgetting that with the new SIM, 1:00 p.m. actually means 1:00 p.m. MY TIME, and not Pacific.

[Sarah Chase]

I got Creep! Good memories of sucking at Rock Band.

[Abe Froman]

Hey, I won the Mien filly on the bright side for 450k who worked .05 seconds from being on the leaderboard













On the downside, I had a bid on Waiting Ages and she goes unsold because i get the Mien filly.

[Steph Lonhro]

I had 2 bids in when it closed (on both looking at the sun 2 yr olds) kind of wishing I got foggy mornings but I am happy with through the glass considering barnes has been kind to me, and she is his half

and the best part is I finally bought a filly, and that it is a turf horse, have a habit of only buying colts

[Tammy Fox]

Looks like the one that had the big bid on her didn't get a taker. I know Laura had a 10mil bid on Waiting Ages and noone else bidded against her but Laura won her bid on another horse. That filly is about to head to auction again in about 11 minutes. I find it weird though that she will be the only one in that auction. I guess the computer automatically creates a second auction if any horses go unsold in any TBS auctions.

[Jonathan Bolt]

I got a nice Herk filly Real Miracles for 200k.

[Melissa Mae]

I won Free People for 171k. He's got nice workouts and I'm hoping that he proves to be good since he is my most expensive purchase ever by almost 100k.

[Nathan Sellers]

I was hoping for clarification - so if anybody knows, feel free to share.

When the auction ended I had the highest bid on one horse and one horse only. We'll call him horse A.

After the underbids got figured out, I ended up with a winning underbid on horse B.

How is it that I have the winning bid on horse A but end up winning a completely different horse on an underbid?

Horse A, by the way, was sold to an underbidder for about $1.2 million less than my winning bid.

Any explanations, clarifications, etc. would be much appreciated.

Nathan

[Abe Froman]

I think that any live underbid and winning bids are all considered "live" so once an underbid is able to be won, you no longer have a winning bid and have to let the computer figure out who wins

[Ronnie Dee]

Looks like the one that had the big bid on her didn't get a taker. I know Laura had a 10mil bid on Waiting Ages and noone else bidded against her but Laura won her bid on another horse. That filly is about to head to auction again in about 11 minutes. I find it weird though that she will be the only one in that auction. I guess the computer automatically creates a second auction if any horses go unsold in any TBS auctions.

I recorded only 3 bids (but there could be more bids) on Waiting Ages.
1. Very early in the auction, Laura Ferguson bid $5,000,000.
2. Sometime Saturday, Sarah Chase bid $5,001,000. This was still the high bid with 5h7m left.
3. In the last few hours of the auction, Laura Ferguson bid $10,001,000.

[Laura Ferguson]

There were more bids. Jon Xett and I had several. Jarrod Brush had the high bid early on, before I dropped the $5 m bid.

I was the underbidder at the close of the auction on the horse.

[The Admin]

I was hoping for clarification - so if anybody knows, feel free to share.
When the auction ended I had the highest bid on one horse and one horse only. We'll call him horse A.
After the underbids got figured out, I ended up with a winning underbid on horse B.
How is it that I have the winning bid on horse A but end up winning a completely different horse on an underbid?
Horse A, by the way, was sold to an underbidder for about $1.2 million less than my winning bid.
Any explanations, clarifications, etc. would be much appreciated.
Nathan

The order in which auction horses are processed is random. Using your letters above, let's say Horse C is processed and is won by the person who has the high bid on Horse B. So that person cannot win any more horses in this auction (since this auction is limited to 1 win per person). Then when Horse B is processed, the high bidder is no longer eligible to win, so it falls to an under bid, which was you. Then when Horse A is processed, you are no longer eligible because you won Horse B, so someone else wins Horse A. If the horses were processed in a different order, you'd win a different horse.

I hope that helps.

[Jon Xett]

So what you are saying is that you are not "safe" with your last second high bid even if it is the ONLY horse you have a bid on if you had previously bid on another horse? Whoa, heavy stuff. The only way to ensure that you have a shot at your 'stable maker' is to only bid on that horse and set up ten computers at the library to simultaneously hit the high bid button using an atomic clock and nine total strangers? Whoa, it is like we are but a spec of sand in the universe of another solar system. Random is the key element here.

If ithe computer can easily do that calculation then perhaps it can now do incremental bid increases. For example bid increases could use the following scale:

$1000 to $100,000 bids increases stay at $1000
$100,000 to $1,000,000 bids increases go to $10,000
greater than $1,000,000 bids increase to $100,000
bids greater than $10 million are just crazy and increases should be made after typing in a paragraph of Big Red of Meadow Stable.

I am not serious by the way - just venting. Enjoy your new 2 year olds!

[Carolyn Eaton]

I'm very pleased with Purrr - she just did a 6f AW work just off the top 5 leaderboard.