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
January Y19 "God, I miss Bojangles." Sam griped as she saddled up Greasy Creek's newest colt. She had been a little excited, despite telling her grandfather he should probably stop buying horses if he wasn't going to hire more employees to manage them. Who was she kidding? She loved new, fresh faces in the stables, "I never got what was so great about it." Frank shrugged and Arturo gaped at the trainer a bit as he stood at the ready with Panhandle Slim, "Have you ever had their dirty rice?" Sam asked, "Their famous Cajun fillet biscuits?" she went on and Frank just shrugged, "If I did it wasn't very memorable, apparently." Arturo laughed at Sam's astonishment, "When I was working in North Carolina," the jockey mentioned, "I was framing houses, we stopped by Bojangles every morning almost, it was part of my life. I miss it too," he agreed with Sam, "I never knew it was regional until coming West." "And North." Sam rolled her eyes and led Bo from the stables, "Nothing wrong with the North." Frank replied, "Except the food sucks." Sam grumbled and got a leg up from a stable hand as Frank helped Artie onto Slim.
The striking red bay and his darker workout partner broke into a light canter as they entered the track for a late afternoon work. Races had concluded and folks were heading out, some richer, some poorer. Sam thought about complaining about the cold this brisk January day as the sun lingered just on the horizon, but decided instead to push Bo into a faster gallop to just get this over with. Slim picked up stride without being prompted to keep pace with the younger horse and they banked into the turn, gathering up ground steadily until they were working in tandem down the back at a good gallop. This was just a tick slower than racing speed and they certainly wouldn't be pushing the horses faster with the ground as cold as it was. They worked a mile in just a hair under two minutes, jogging into the home straight only slightly winded.
"I could go for some biscuits and gravy." Sam admitted as they pulled up, "I would gain ten pounds and miss weight for even looking at that." Artie laughed, it was a joke but also a reminder that if his friend wanted to become a jockey as well, she would need to stick to the diet she had asked him to help her with.
