Fasig Tipton Saratoga

[-BT-]

Originally Posted by XIIPointStables

Okay, who was this...

"A bizarre incident disrupted the early portion of Tuesday's session. A man seated in the front row opened bidding on Hip No. 151, a Kingmambo-Imperial Beauty filly, at a cool $1 million, taking everyone by surprise. With no other takers, the hammer fell, and in some perplexity the press corps and auction officials descended on the bidder, whom no one appeared to recognize. The man, seated with a male companion, signed his receipt as "Josh Mann," but then peevishly declined to identify himself. His companion said only, "He did this on his own," and also declined to identify the bidder.

The bidder was approached by Fasig-Tipton executives Walt Robertson and Boyd Browning as he left the pavilion. At first, the bidder tried to explain that he had a client who didn't not want himself or the agent identified on the sale receipt. The Fasig-Tipton officials tried to coax him into a private office with consignor Craig Bandoroff, who by now had joined the anxious group on the sidewalk. But the bidder, casually dressed in khakis and a madras shirt and carrying a plastic Mountain Dew bottle, took off at a brisk walk through the parking lot. Robertson and Browning tried to block his exit but were unsuccessful, and so ended one of the more audacious cases of bidding at a high-level auction by someone who was apparently drunk."

http://www.drf.com/news/article/106286.html

not funny...... but still pretty funny

-bt-