Final Furlong (FF) is a horse racing SIM unlike any other. Campaign your stable of horses, either created yourself or hailing from established lines. Found your own breeding empire by tapping into established lines or beginning your own. Done breeding? FF's unique post-career showing system will keep your favorites active for even longer! The sky is the limit here on FF and we look forward to you joining us. Welcome! :) Join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/4GV5V6Z
Kenren
Admin
Cruisey
Admin
Sunfrost
Admin
Lolly
Moderator
Calendar
Races close on Mondays at 9PM EST! Our Next Sale Begins: January Y22.
02/05/23 We're almost ready to kick off the New Year here at Final Furlong! The New Years Sale is still OPEN for bids - lots of ponies needing homes! As well, we're hoping to close January Week One races by MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6. However, if we need to extend closing date so more people can get entered, just let us know in the Discord. In addition to getting your pages ready, don't forget to use your bonus points if you'd like!
01/29/23 Congratulations to KENREN for winning the Y21 Breeders' Cup Betting Contest! You've won a breeding reserve to FIFTY DREAMS (Firestone Stud) and 2x 2 furlong extensions + 5 bonus horse points! Lolly finished 2nd, and Cruisey finished 3rd.
12/08/22 The Breeder's Cup Betting Contest will make a return for Y21!!! It'll be a little bit different because of the new points system, but get ready for some end of year fun 😄
11/21/22 Entries for the New Year Sale are now open! We know it seems a bit early, but with life things we're going to need time to make sure things are right lol. Please follow the link here: https://final-furlong.proboards.com/thread/2304/y22-new-year-sale
08/20/22 Judging has been the basis for issues for a long time - taking too long, drama regarding results, bias, etc. Kenren has attempted to put a points system together that keeps the spirit of our system while streamlining and standardizing the process. It's a lot to take in, but once you get in the swing of it, preparing pages with these points takes way less time than doing a layout change lol! If you have any questions, please post them in the judging-help channel on Discord for now. If anyone needs help with anything, please let an admin know! We would like to give everyone one week to get things settled, and then we would like to run July Wk 2 using this system closing 8/27/22 (or earlier if everyone is ready). If it works out, we would like to run two game weeks per RL week to get things moving! Thank you all so much for being her!e
07/27/22 To start July off fresh, we've been playing around with a new theme for Final Furlong! Make sure to check out 'Sonorous' under your profile ❤️ Feel free to use whatever theme works best for yourself. We can't wait to get back to racing!
07/21/22 it's official! We're back! It looks like June Wk 4 was almost fully judged, so make sure you get that updated if you hadn't! We will plan to close the next week (July Wk 1) on Thursday, August 4th. This close day may change, but it's not a bad place to start! For now we'll be doing one game week per RL week to get back into things. Please remember that starting the second half of the year, 3yos can compete against older horses without automatic lower placements.
As an aside, because this is fairly sudden after a whole year, we will not be allowing reclaims on horses for members not currently active for a few months. We will readdress this going forward if needed. Thank you all for understanding!
07/08/22 GO answer the poll ❤️ https://final-furlong.proboards.com/thread/2232/ff-restart-poll
Voted as Year Eighteen's Filly of the Year, Best Dirt Mare, and Best 3yo Filly, Earthly Witch has had what Valkyrie Stud's assistant trainer and spokesman, Minske Mavecci, calls a dream run. "We've never had a horse like her, not even close. And to say that we bred her, that we raced her for her entire career? That's above and beyond." Earthly Witch, you may remember, won a very respectable four HOTY* wins from July to December as a two-year-old before exploding onto the scene at three. She put up as impressive a run as is possible in modern times, and did it without fatigue or question. The filly took two legs of the Canadian Triple Tiara, finding the winner's circle in the first and last races. She then went on to stun the open distaff division, winning five more HOTY* races against top competition before capping a spectacular year with a Breeders' Cup Distaff* finish. Mavecci remembers the moment fondly. "She went in as the favorite, of course, but that doesn't make you any less nervous these days. Maybe even more so, with a target on your back. But she made it twelve wins on the season." At the time, Valkyrie had contemplated retiring the filly before her four-year-old year, as she'd done everything she could conceivably do in the dirt distaff division. However, the owners decided to give her a chance against the boys. "We didn't want to drop her down to the fillies again for a reprieve. If she was going to race another year, she was going to do it against the boys, and on their terms. We weren't going to hide or take on weaker competition," Mavecci stated.
However, after five months of racing at four, the farm has decided to retire their prize filly. "It's not a knee-jerk reaction by any means," Mavecci insisted. "I mean, she won against some very impressive horses this week in the New Hampshire Sweep*, and we don't take that for granted in the least. We're glad she's been able to at least prove herself in the same league as some of these horses. But she just doesn't have the same shine she used to, and we think she's ready to be done. We've given her the chance in case she wanted it, but she's got nothing left to prove to us. We've evaluated the other horses in the division and we just don't think it's worth fighting tooth and nail with her when she's just not the same horse this year. She'll go to retirement, and in doing so open the doors wide for up-and-comers like Gallantry. He'll have his pick of races in the second half of the year, and we're excited to see how he'll do." Gallantry, by Gallant Knight out of Valkyrie's prized broodmare Enchantress, recently finished first in a loaded Kentucky Derby* field.
Earthly Witch goes out with a legacy. She won a total of twenty HOTY* races in her career, including those twelve at three. Earthly Witch is by Warlock, making her half to such horses as Hall of Famer Axis Mundae, G1 Beltane, G1 Samhain, and the G2 stallion Black Magic. Through the dam she is half to top producer Native Flame (Sun King, Fire Dancer, Van Guard) and G1 HOTY* winner Proletariat.
This filly is reportedly being bred to the RS Jury Duty son Jericho for a Y20 foal.