Down, Down, Down Auction – 3728 –<\/SPAN><\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Wow!\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I thought things were bad the past couple of weeks but this week was the worst I have seen in years.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Like the economy, the auction went south and only one of the categories showed any increase and it wasn’t in a good way.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The number of 2 YOs that were not sold increased from six to ten this week.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Other than that, everything was down.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Of course, the big decrease could have been due to the neighbor who cut the phone lines and left the Sim without power for what seemed like forever, even though it was only about 24 hours.\u00a0 <\/SPAN> Whatever the reason – we only had two horses sell for over a million dollars and only two of the old guys sold for more than $1.00 but\u2026.. both of them are rather interesting.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Hip number 7947, Direwolfe<\/B> was one of them.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A pretty, almost white, eight year old mare by Cee’s Tizzy was led into the ring by Shredder<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has only won one of eight starts and hasn’t run since February of ’04.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She’s got all her conditions and Lidman1<\/I><\/B> decided to take a chance and paid $50,002.00 for her.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The other old horse is a 9Y0 bay mare, # 77622, Straight Digger<\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has a low tag of $2,000 and for her age is lightly raced.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won two of her 10 starts but she has been in the money in six of them.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Monoploy3<\/I><\/B> led this daughter of adventure Road in the ring and Bonnyd<\/I><\/B> paid $8,001.00 to lead her out.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>OK, ok – here are the auction statistics for the week.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN> Auction Stats Horses Entered -442 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 550) –<\/B> Horses Sold For More Than $1.00 – 131 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 148) –\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/B> Horses Not Sold or RNA (Reserve Not Attained) – 38 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week -56) –<\/B> Horses Sold For $1.00 – 107 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 120) –\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN> Two Year-olds – Entered – 89 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week 118) –\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/B> Two Year-olds – Sold – 79 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 112) – Two year-olds – Not Sold or RNA – 10 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 6) +<\/B> Total Sales – $13,229,054 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week $21,313,253) –<\/B> Average <\/SPAN><\/B> Leading Buyer – Computer Stable – 166 <\/SPAN><\/B>(last week – 226) –\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/B> The Millionaires:\u00a0 <\/SPAN> There were only two of them this week and both look promising.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Even with the horrible name of Bowel Movement<\/B>, hip number # 125414 brought down the hammer at $3,504,212.00.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Consigned by Hawk10<\/I><\/B>, the 4 YO light chestnut colt is a former $3500 claimer and is by Rainbow Quest out of a Vice Regent mare.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has six victories from 25 starts although he hasn’t won in more than a year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In fact, he won that claiming event on <\/SPAN> A 2YO dark bay filly trimmed in white was offered by Turbo1<\/I><\/B> after a wire to wire victory last time out.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Miss Nancy,<\/B> #163260, is by Dylan Thomas out of a Lyphard mare and has only started three times.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>While one would think with her breeding she would be a turfy type she turned up her nose and improved greatly after being switched to the dirt.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Kdiv<\/I><\/B> paid $3,000,001.00 for her and hopes to see her improve with seasoning. The Auction Seen: I arrived a bit later than usual due to having to get water on my newly seeded pasture before I left AZ.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Of course one of the sprinklers was broken – one that worked perfectly the day before.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I swear I have sprinkler gremlins that live under the trees and come out every evening just to make my life miserable.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A new sprinkler head, a bit of primer and glue and I was on my way east.\u00a0 <\/SPAN> I stopped by the bar and visited with Itch<\/I><\/B> and Nogo<\/I><\/B> who had the top of the bar spread with Monopoly’s<\/I><\/B> money.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>They were consulting with Financr<\/I><\/B> about how best to spend it.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Itch noticed we had run out of our beer stash in the BTB press room and was most upset so I had to tell him where we had moved it.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Just too many of those cub reporters helping themselves when we weren’t looking. \u00a0<\/SPAN>I bought the group a beer and wandered down towards my table with the help of Biggerjet<\/I><\/B> and Dumptruck<\/I><\/B> who cleared the way.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Tsunami<\/I><\/B> was moving horses around between stables trying to take advantage of the boost some horses seem to get when changing stables.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Hawk<\/I><\/B> was also moving horses but he wasn’t necessarily buying them up with his other holdings.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Quiggy<\/I><\/B> and Opus<\/I><\/B> called me over and they invited me to sit and gossip but I had someone waiting at my table so couldn’t stay very long.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I waved at Kingranch,<\/I><\/B> who races under the LFZ 3 Man Team.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He was giving Goldeneye<\/I><\/B> a look at Ranch102<\/I><\/B> and Phatfarm.<\/I><\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>LFZ\u2026.hummmm.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Lenny, Fats and ??\u00a0 <\/SPAN>