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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
May, 2018 A lighter, redder bay than both his parents, Slim had been anything but in the last few months but here he was today at The Wire getting down to business. The lanky colt was just a hair under seventeen hands and easily the largest colt in the barn at the moment. Today he was sharpening up for a start in the not so distant future and Frank was pulling out all the stops, "Five furlongs?" Sam asked in disbelief and only received a nod from the stoic trainer, a man of few words as she had found out very early in his employment under her grandfather. She was going out alone with this big red bay today and feeling a little nervous about it but Slim had been well behaved at the small track back home. But here with other horses, strange sights, people, noises and smells, the colt might just feel the need to throw manners to the wind and be a typical three year old. Frank didn't seem too concerned, though and this helped to settle Sam's nerves as she galloped the long legged colt to the first turn, keeping her knees bent and reins tight as the rolling stride gathered under her mount and the bobbing head started to blow at the effort.
"On your right!" she called to another rider as they were galloping out and navigated her colt into the bend, eyeing the backstretch and the pole she would be letting the Cactus Jack colt loose at. The three white feet mimicked his sire and his temperament definitely conveyed the attitude of her grandfather's pride and joy. It was the nasty nature of the colt's dam that had them all worried it would rear its ugly head some day, but so far, the only thing Slim seemed to have inherited from the ill tempered black mare was her stamina. This boy was going to be a long distance runner, they could tell.
The wind picked up as Slim uncoiled his stride when asked, stretching out to break into his full run he was a red flash down the back as his trainer monitored him from the rail atop his mount. Even the normally placid Banjo lifted his head and swiveled his ears as Slim came barreling off the turn and kicked on for the homestretch, a mere flash under the wire when Frank clocked him and heard a few other clicks as the colt galloped out and decelerated. He hoped the nosy track rats were as impressed as he was. A minute flat for five furlongs had the aging trainer nodding in satisfaction.
June, Y18 The decision to keep Slim at Battlestone Downs was an easy one, he was handling the surface like a true professional and had recently lost a hard fought stretch duel here in which he impressed the bettors as well as his connections. In just six days he would be taking on grade five company once more in the Tremont Stakes, a step up in class but the experience would be worth it his trainer felt, even if he didn't fair so well. After three weeks of rest there was strong hope and confidence that this last breeze would prove fruitful for the eleven furlong test on the third week in June.
Stretching out to a six furlong move this mild summer morning there was tension in the air as the colt first schooled at the gates in some effort to further desensitize him to the noisy machine he sometimes balked at when asked to load. His break was impeccable, it was just getting him into the damn thing that proved challenging and with him drawing the number one hole, he would likely be standing in the gates the longest, giving him more and more time to flip his shit as he grew tired of waiting.
Extending easily when asked, the colt found his stride and stretched out down the back into an easy gallop, steadily picking up speed as he approached the turn and banked into it, circling a couple of other workers in the process. Slim swung into the home stretch with his ears pricked and feet kicking, flagging his tail a few times in his excitement and zipped past the wire in 1:11 and 4.
September Y18 After winning his maiden in fine form, the red bay three year old Greasy Creek had put so much stock in, so far had failed to show his winning ways since. Maybe it was just the issue of finding a good enough race for him with softer company, or perhaps something else was amiss. But as Panhandle Slim came off the far turn looking much like he had when he had won back in May, the mystery remained.
He wasn’t a poor performer by any means, other than a disappointing out of the money finish in the Tremont Stakes in June, Slim had managed to place third or better in all of his starts. There seemed to be a preference for twelve furlongs, good conditions rather than a bone dry track, and quite possibly the atmosphere at Greasy Creek’s most successful track.
It was a start, everyone supposed as Slim took to the track early this morning at Battlestone Downs, lengthening stride and flashing passed the quarter pole in a minute flat for the five furlong move.