I went to bid on Phenomenal in the Select Auction. Before I tried to place my bid, he had a high bid of $2m. I put in a max bid of $10m and got a message that “Your current bid must be greater than or equal to $2,001,000”. When I “Click here to return to the auction summary”, it is now $10m, even though nobody else seems to have placed a bid on him.
I had a similar thing happen with NCh. Run Jenny Run - Previous high bid was $1,000, my max was $5m, new high bid is $5m.
I have placed bids on three more horses. The Pennysurprise weanling, the Indy Girl yearling and the Indy Girl weanling. My bid for the Pennysurprise weanling was the first bid for her and it is showing as the high bid at $1,000. The two Indy Girl foals already had opening bids of $1,000 each on them when I bid on them and the high bids for both of them have jumped to $50k, my max bids.
It looks like if a horse already has a bid on it and somebody puts a higher bid on it, instead of jumping up to $1,000 more than the previous high bidders max bid, it jumps to the current high bidders max, whereas if a horse doesn’t have an opening bid on it, it only starts at $1,000.
Hopefully this information will help to figure out where the bug is.
I had a similar thing happen in the recently completed November Auction with Al-'Ula (jumped from $1,000 to $1m).
BTW - The high bid on Phenomenal has now jumped up to $15m with Denoux the current high bidder.