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
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Sunfrost
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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
With the influx of horses coming through the game, Valkyrie is no exception to the massive retirement waves that will be coming from here on out every year. In order to combat this wave and keep from being overwhelmed with breeding horses, we are implementing a new policy:
Once a same-gender 'replacement' child of one of our breeding horses retires to our breeding program, the parent will retire after that child's first breeding season. For some horses, this can be the fifth year after their first foal, given that foal is the same gender and is owned by VS. For others it will be much longer, just depending on when that 'replacement' breeding horse is born.
What does this mean for you?
Basically, we will announce about mid-year which breeding horses will be retired the following year. If that horse has outstanding reserves still at that point, they may be used the following breeding season, and then the horse will be pensioned. If you don't have room, you're out of luck - unless you've pre-arranged a year when you want to use the horse. Those will be honored, even if the horse is otherwise pensioned. Reserves-at-large with no planned breeding year will go unused, and may not be called upon later. If it's possible, we will try to offer a reserve to the replacement horse, but that will be on a case-by-case basis and isn't a guarantee.
So! If you don't want to use your reserves early, you can get around it by planning what year you DO want to use it. If you don't, this'll be a 'you snooze, you lose' situation. This is the only way I can think to keep horses moving smoothly through my barn, keeping my pedigrees fresh and current.
If, for some reason, I were to leave the game (not likely), reserves may be used at any time. Since I won't actually be pensioning anything. Just to cover all of my bases.
I will say there's no reason to rush or panic this year - the only horse retiring under this new policy next year is Eclipse, who has no outstanding reserves.
