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
The second work out of the day, and the group was faced with a very grumpy chestnut filly. Poppy wasn't having it, she was fighting against the bit and was refusing to load into the gate. Gate training was definitely on the table for this girl, but they didn't have time for that now. A seven furlong sprint, a sweet spot for the miler filly and with a nice quick pace this would be one hell of a workout. In the gate Alison tried her hardest to keep the feisty filly calm, but Poppy was just the slightest bit too eager to launch out of the gate.
With the command from Bates the gates opened, and Poppy surged straight out. With no other horses in front Alison had to keep the filly at an average pace, mimicking a stalker throughout the race. Poppy was already fighting, and despite the fact there were no other horses on the track she just wanted to rush. Alison kept a tight hand on the reins, and thankfully no whip was in hand. Calm, Alison just needed to relax. Hopefully if she tensed less the filly would react and stop resisting. It worked slightly, but not for long, around the second last bend she started fighting again rushing forwards.
At this point Alison wasn't going to fight it, if Poppy wanted to run she could run. Alison loosened her grip and signalled to the filly to go. A surge of speed was reached, but the filly couldn't maintain it for too long. Alison prepared herself, knowing that the filly was either going to completely stop or slow down quite dramatically. As the filly slowed near the end, Alison tried pushing her on and the filly gave one last push. As they crossed the non-existant wire the filly quickly dropped into a walk, jolting Alison forwards and almost over her head. "And that's why you don't rush at the last bend. You can't keep that speed up for long." Alison muttered under her breath, giving the filly a quick pat and she looked around exhausted.
Edited May 18, 2019 20:07:07 GMT -5 By Dea Invidia