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
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Cruisey
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Sunfrost
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Lolly
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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
Post by S u N f r O s T ~ on Apr 11, 2018 21:31:06 GMT -5
THE NEW MEMBER VIP PROGRAM
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The NMVIP Program was created in Year 17 to benefit new members who needed horses with a bit of racing experience to get them on the right track.
A new member is classified as someone who has not been a member for longer than 6 months. Staff members will create the horses of various ages that will become students in this training program. Each horse will receive their own thread in the NMVIP board and from there they will be assigned to a stable to receive their training and start entering races.
After a certain amount of time (such as when the horse - or when their trainer thinks they are ready - they will become graduates and will be available for purchase (via site money) by new members.
Acceptable conditions for graduation: Here are a few conditions that trainers can use to decide when their horse is ready. 1. Becomes a specific grade level (G5, G4, etc.) 2. Earnings reach X amount 3. Has X number of starts (students should not be considered for graduation if they have a race consistency below 70%) 4. Wins a major race/series (race consistency must be at least 60%) A
HOW TO BECOME A TRAINER
In order to become a trainer you must be an senior member (member for 6+ months) so that you can bring out the absolute best in these horses. You may not take on more than 5 student horses per stable at any given time.
When you are ready to graduate your horses in training, you cannot reserve any breeding reserves or buybacks on these horses. They are to solely belong to the new member.
Graduate horses should be actively raced even while they are up for sale.
* A graduate is able to go unraced for 2 months at the most provided an unforeseen injury does not occur.
* Should the horse's current trainer wish to move on to other projects while the graduate is up for sale, the horse can either 1) be trained by a different trainer or 2) leased to a member (new members included) as a trial run.
BUYING A GRADUATE
Buying a graduate is incredibly easy. So long as you have not been a member for longer than 6 RL months you are eligible for this program. Horses that are available will have 'GRADUATE' in their thread title. Sold horses will of course have 'SOLD' and horses in training will have 'STUDENT' in the thread title.
New members that own NMVIP graduates, as their owners, are able race, lease, sell and breed their horses. Should they wish to sell the horse to a previous owner they may do so.
Should a new member become inactive after purchasing a graduate, the graduate will be accessed by a staff member to determine if it needs to be trained further or if it can be sold to another member (old or new).
Graduates should have 'NMVIP Graduate' somewhere on their profile as well. It is also highly encouraged - but not mandatory - for the occasional offspring of graduates to be offered to the program as well.
** Graduates won't be available until January Year 18 (new members in Y17 will still be able to participate) **
