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
As we leave September behind Chris Tipton, trainer at up and coming Golden Valley Racing, invited us to the yard for a short tour of the facilities and update on the roster of horses currently racing from them. As we drove up the long drive, we were greeted by lush pastures and could see some of the horses out grazing - including, to our surprise, the royally bred broodmare Lumiera. It is clear that the stable puts an emphasis on providing the stock with a chance to just be horses, and seeing this first-hand is always a lovely sight. As such, we were already smiling when we were warmly greeted by Chris in the carpark and our tour began. The whole yard is held to a high standard, with staffing levels above the average for the number of horses, and should an open day ever be held I would highly recommend attendance to anybody.
"Chris, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the stable has continued to grow?" The trainer laughed at my question and shrugged.
"Well, we hadn't particularly been looking to add more stock until the new year now but a couple of opportunities had arisen and we weren't about to turn our backs on them. I assume your interest was raised by Lumiera?" I nodded and could see the gleam of pride in the trainer's eye. "She was one I couldn't turn my back on. When we were approached by her previous owners, who had struggled to find a place for her within their own breeding programme I knew she had a place here. I can confirm she was bred to Passionate Class, and am delighted to be able to tell you that we are expecting a colt from that particular breeding sometime next year."
"Wow. So who else have you managed to bring home since the sale? The way you answered my previous question tells me that there is more news?"
"Yes. We have been lucky enough to be able to lease three year old Wise Guy for the remainder of the season, unless his previous trainer is able to return. He's only had one win this season, but we got him out in September Week 3 and he placed so we just hope to build further on that."
"Lovely. Has anything else happened lately?"
"Well, I doubt anyone really noticed but a few of our imports have made it to Grade 4 recently. It might not seem like a big deal but it feels great to see them proving themselves on the track and for both Battleborn and Ship In The Night to achieve this so close to one another really fills me with hope."
"It's always nice to hear that a new stable is finding some success at the tracks. Do you have any particular plans for the rest of the year? Or perhaps next season?"
"Most of our horses will be continuing their careers next season. Spirit Of Liberty is getting more confident with every start and I am hoping she'll really find her place as a Horse Of The Year contender next year so I will keep racing her and hoping to build her up for that. The same with most of our horses really. With Moonstorm, who seems to be struggling at the minute, a decision will be made closer to the end of the season. Right now we are considering retiring her once she gets her final win and makes it to Grade One. Then we have the yearlings who will be juveniles coming to the track. They'll be the first to run a full juvenile season with us, so that's exciting too. But I don't want to give too much away."
While he might be keeping tight-lipped there is no denying that this trainer is one who has a lot of excitement for the coming months and we have no doubt that Golden Valley Racing will continue to grow as a presence within the racing community.
