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
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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
I recently bought 'A Brush With Greatness,' which is a coffee table type book written by Ed Bowen (who's done a lot of stuff in the Thoroughbred industy but currently heads the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation) and illustrated with paintings by Robert Clark of each horse discussed in the book. It was expensive, but an incredibly cool buy.
Anyway, Mr. Bowen has an introduction at the beginning of the book and I wanted to share parts of it, since it so incredibly embraces the feeling throughout the Thoroughbred industry. It's why horses like Justify will often be called good, when people from outside of the sport or fans in general might feel there should be a stronger accolade.
"Thoroughbred racing tradition... is to guard jealously the use of the word "great" when describing a race horse. Loose use of the word can make the speaker seem (1) unfamiliar with the history of the game, (2) overly zealous, or (3) lacking in judgement. If the word is mis-applied to a horse of one's own, well, "amateur" is perhaps the most polite mental response.
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Talk sometimes turned to horses some of the older guys on the crew were familiar with, and at the mention of Whirlaway, one of these sages remarked, "He was a nice horse. I don't know if I would call him a great horse."
What? A Triple Crown winner and two-time Horse of the Year, and Whirlaway did not qualify for the ultimate adjective? ... Frequently one hears of a "nice" horse and realizes that the speaker is being restrained and honoring a tradition of the Turf. One can sometimes get by with a qualifier, such as "this is a great two-year-old," but a standalone anointment of "great" is another matter. It simply is bad form to call a horse "great" when he or she is not.
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To win a single grade 1 is not in itself the proof of greatness. Win a compelling sequence of grade 1s, and we can talk.
However, we can certainly say that winning a grade 1 is a "brush with greatness.""
So there, may all of you non-industry people now know why horsemen and women always cast a horse in doubt - even if it's done good things, there's often something else they need to do in order to be called 'great'. They want to see the filly run against colts. They want to see a younger horse run against older ones. They won't be seen as 'great' unless they've checked all of the boxes, and even then the stalwarts might hold back. It's a weird industry I guess, but I love it xD
