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
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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
Happy almost-October guys! Just a few things this month.
1) I'm going to say it many times just to make it happen xD Make sure your directory post is updated! We don't want horses to slip through the cracks. If a horse RNA'd to your farm, they need a page and to be added to the directory. If you are leasing a horse, they need to be on YOUR directory post, not the owner's! A horse should only be posted at the stable they are physically living at/racing from so people can see an up-to-date page!
2) Kind of going off the first one, I'm going to be performing a registry check probably at the beginning of next week, though I may start this weekend! I'm going to go through and try to make sure horses haven't been forgotten or fallen through the cracks, because I know there are some that aren't up there.
3) Get ready guys - next year there are going to be three sales! The New Years Sale will stay where it always is, between years. There will be strictly no weanlings in that sale. The July Sale will move to May Wk 1 and be the May Sale (obvs). Due to the timing, weanlings won't be allowed in this sale either. The big highlight of the year will be the September Select Sale. Any horse can be entered in this sale, but the first 'day', or basically the first chunk of horses sold, will be a 'select' group chosen by admins. This will be 15 or less (probably less) of the most proven horses, HOTY winners, and well-lined foals we have on offer. The exact guidelines will be stated when entries start for that sale. After this first chunk of elite horses sell, there will be a regular catalog of any other horses. This sale will also be special because it's the only sale where weanlings will be available! So there's excitement both in the select sale and the regular catalog. So anyway, plan for that! Hopefully it'll help keep sales numbers from being super large and maybe we won't need different rings (maybe...).
4) Quick reminder, but remember that if you judge a leg of a Triple series, you can't judge another leg in the same series. In longer series like the RM/GM or Distance Series races, don't judge ones in the same series back to back, and probably try to have two races between judgings. We want to keep things varied and fair as much as possible.
5) On that note, please try not to judge the same group of horses over and over, undercard or HOTY or whatever. If you feel like you're seeing the same horses while judging, give that group a break. There's nothing wrong with saying you've judged that group a lot and someone else should probably take it. We do that all the time. Give it a month or two off. Because one person shouldn't be controlling an entire season. Even the big races will have a couple of people that can judge, so please police yourselves so that admins don't have to.
6) Also remember that 2yos still can't compete with anything other than other 2yos pretty much, so try and keep to the 2yo-only races or pay close attention to fields. There are still a bunch of G5 older horses out there, so it's better to put your 2yo in a large juvenile race where they at least have a chance than a G5 race with older horses where they'll automatically lose.
7) Please, please, please check the Discord general chat before entering races. If someone has posted that they're entering and you post before or after they're done and you haven't included their entries, you will have to redo yours. And if you're entering, even if no one's posted saying that they are, post that you're doing it to cover your butt.
Thanks guys, and happy racing! - The Staff
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