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
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
Post by S u N f r O s T ~ on Mar 5, 2020 8:53:33 GMT -5
Hey guys! Thanks for responding to all of the feedback surveys. We're happy to announce (and re-announce!) some changes and new things coming to FF for this year (as well as make a general announcement about things going on).
Sales: Don't forget to submit your entries for the May Sale.
Showing: Showing has finally come to FF! You can find all relevant information here if you haven't already. Note: We are currently not allowing horses to be bred specifically for showing, but you may "create" the parents of your racehorses and use them for showing.
Items:READ THIS Items are becoming limited again! Please check out the Items and Incentives guide for details.
In particular, check out the section on the Rerouter item. This item lets you change your horse's distance preferences, within the following restrictions (excerpted from the guide): "They can be used at any point in a horse's career, but a horse can only use a rerouter once. Rerouters are for horses who have made at least one career start (you can change the distance preferences of your weanlings and yearlings at will). The new distance range must include at least one of the distances that your horses used to run at. For example: A 9-12 furlong horse can be rerouted to be a 6-9 horse, but not a 5-8 horse (because 5, 6, 7, 8 furlongs were not included in the previous distance range)."
Because we are going back to restricted items, everybody gets to take home 2 surface supremes, 2 1-furlong distance extensions, 2 2-furlong distance extensions, 2 custom foal kits, 2 gender benders, 2 unique color certificates, 1 twin voucher, and 1 rerouter.
Another note - you are allowed to use items as you would use money (i.e. for buying horses, breedings, etc.), but this is not a required element of any transaction.
Judging Incentives Judging Rewards are back! Please check out the details and rankings here. You can always find the thread in the Stable Owner's Handbook board!
Horse of the Month Staff has decided that we will be bringing this back! However, we are seeking a volunteer to run this every month. All you would need to do is post a thread in the "Jockey's Room - Events" board every month accepting nominations, and then put up a poll at the end of the month with all of the nominees. Whoever's horse wins HoTM will be able to take home 2 common items or 1 rare item (i.e. twin voucher/rerouter) from the "store". If you are interested in running this, please PM a staff member and let us know. We would like to begin running this for March.
The Gallop So as you guys may have seen in the first survey, I proposed a suggestion for bringing The Gallop back. Everybody responded really positively to this, so I will be creating a thread in the Jockey's Room board soliciting volunteers for the remaining months of Y20. All details will be included in that thread on what the expectations are and what you could write about, so go visit it here and let me know if you have any questions.
Little Fixes/Improvements: D/T are being added to TW races (so now you don't have to scroll back up to try and figure out if that race your horse was entered in was dirt or turf).
Based on feedback we've received, the staff team are working to ensure that a more balanced and fitting variety of races are offered each week (i.e. more sprinter races in beginning of season, more logical races for two year olds given current win counts, etc.)
