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Luther is fed up with Ake. Trainer change in the future is definitely on the table.
Bad decision from jump, and it just got worse. If the horse was really a top horse, there were several potential buyers who would be interested. He simply wasn't. Poor due diligence, Luther was on the horse, the price got run up, and it was a bust. Unfortunately, it happens a lot. The business ends up losing what could have been a very good owner.
Why do you jerks worry about how some one spends their money I am sure he not worried.
Most times there is an underbidder. Sometimes there isn't. LOL. I am not saying there wasn't, but everyone knew who was on the horse. Neither Katz or Libfeld had to worry about getting premium dollars on this horse. Ake was the X-factor, LOL. Anyway, when you have one or two people on a horse, sometimes the auctioneer will simply add a bid. If it keeps going, it goes. If it doesn't, then they give the back off call. In Harrisburg, there are a few farms that are well known for this, and when you see the back off call, it means it might be a buy-back unless there was a real bidder and they can get them to go one more. On Amazing Catch, the bidding was frenzied, opened at $200k, and went to a million, million one, rapid fire. I saw Luther bid and then I walked back to the corridor and saw Harris bid. Luther was stone cold and Harris was on the phone. I don't who was a live bid and who wasn't, but an extra bid might have been thrown in there. I don't know. It's not the first or hundredth time it's happened.
