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
Admin
Sunfrost
Admin
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
First of all, I hope you're all already enjoying the sale as much as I am. Remember that pages and workouts/articles for juveniles will need to be done before they start racing if you want them to do well! Please note that January Week One will be closing April 12th. Races in Y18 will be closing every Thursday at 9pm EDT.
As we change from Y17 to Y18, here are some things to remember as judges and judgees and members in general:
- Pay attention to your fields! 2yos will almost always lose to anything older, and 3yos will almost always lose to older horses until July Wk 1, when they are considered physically mature enough to compete. Therefore it's generally safer to run in age-specific races unless you can be on to scratch a horse if older horses are entered or are okay with a lower placing.
- 'Class' in 2yo HOTY races don't necessarily guarantee you a leg up in races early-season. So if an undercard winner and a HOTY winner run against each other in January/February, the HOTY winner is not guaranteed that win. They're all on a pretty level playing field early on!
- And I know it's hard given how much they're anticipated, but please remember that well-bred 2yos may not come out of the gate and win everything. They may not win at all at first. And that's okay, because not every horse is going to be a champion juvenile! They'll get their moments, so don't get upset if a create beats your blueblood. They're all starting out on the same playing field.
- Please remember that every horse is capable of running the full range of their preferred distances! For example, we don't say that 9-12 horses are only good at the middle of their range, 10-11 furlongs, so we shouldn't do it to 7-10, 6-9, etc. A 'miler' at 7-10 is fully capable of running against sprinters at 7 furlongs, not just at 8-9 furlongs! We are all guilty of this, but we should make a conscious effort not to use distance against a runner if they're capable of running it.
- Along the same line, 'best distances', aka the distance or distances in a horse's range that the horse seems to win the most at, should not be used against a horse unless the horses are very, very evenly matched! A horse that runs 6-9 is quite capable of winning at 8 furlongs even if it hasn't run that distance before, or even if it has lost a lot at that distance! Best distances should be viewed like leg type, personality, etc. - it can be used for judging only after taking restriction factors (can the horse run the distance/surface/gender/age group etc) and class into account! Of course, every once in a great while there will be a major upset, but we need to be very careful about saying a horse cannot run at a specific distance when it is within its range. A classy horse running at a distance it's unused to or 'bad' at should still win against a horse with little to no class in most cases.
- Just a side note, but horses are NOT to be registered until the year they're born. ie. Y19 horses should not be registered until Y19 actually happens. They should also not be visible on your stable page, as that becomes confusing. If you have them made, they need to be invisible so you can see them and share them if you choose but they cannot be seen by the casual visitor to your site.
