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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
Hello everybody and welcome to the Y20 Breeders Cup Betting Contest!
Your host this year is Cruisey . I'm really excited to see who everyone bets on this year. The fields look LARGE and IN CHARGE xD I'm using the following form from previous years, created by the lovely S u N f r O s T ~ !
The rules for this are very simple: Take a look at the Breeders Cup entries [provided in the second post]. PM your picks to myself by the time all of the judging at GHF and BSD is complete. Any bets submitted after races commence will not count! All bets must be sent by PM in order to be counted - this is to avoid biasing potential judges. I may announce come Monday who the favorite is for each race based on the bets received, but that is as much info as you will get about how other people are betting.
How many horses can I pick for each race? Choose who you believe will win, place, and show for each race. This means you are more likely to get points for smaller fields, but the alternative is to set up a more complicated system so let's just go with this XD
Can I bet on a race that I am judging? No, as this would likely advantage you in the contest. Please only bet on the races that you have horses entered in/that you will not be judging. If you are unsure about which races you are judging, just bet on it anyway. If you end up judging a race you ended up betting on, then points will simply not be counted for that race.
Can I bet on my own horses? Yes!! Of course. Bet on whichever horses you would like.
How will points be calculated? Here is the point system that will be utilized for this contest:
Trifecta [correctly predicted win, place, show] = 10 points Exacta [correctly predicted win, place] = 8 points Win/Place/Show [correctly predicted win or place or show] = 2 points
Trifecta Box [correctly predicted the horses in top three, but wrong order] = 6 points Exacta Box [correctly predicted the horses in top two, but wrong order] = 4 points
BONUS POINTS if you correctly succeed with a trifecta/exacta in a race with seven entries! This will net you 2 extra points for each [so 12 points for a trifecta and 10 points for an exacta].
If you correctly predict the horse in first and the horse in third but got the horse in second wrong and did not include that horse in your top three picks, you will receive 4 points in total [2 points for the winner, 2 points for the horse in third].
The point total will be tallied and then divided by the total number of races you bet on to create an average. This average will be the amount of points you earn for the contest. This should help bring those judging a lot of races and those judging only a few onto an even playing field.
What will the prizes be?
1st Place: Custom foal from any FRS horse! You can pick from currently racing to seasoned breeding stock. You will also receive the only public foal by The The Raven, year Y22 or Y23 courtesy of Kenren !
2nd Place: Donated by free , a foal by Mighty News! He is open for any year. Please note this will be the last public foal from this handsome stud.
3rd Place: Prize Pack! Pick any 3 prizes from the following list: 2 Furlong Extension, 1 Furlong Extension, Surface Supreme, Custom Foal Kit, Gender Bender
If you have any questions, please ask!! I think I covered all the bases, but I may have missed something, who knows XD
Here are the current favourites for the Breeder's Cup! These should have NO effect on judging results so please do not take this into too much consideration. After four members sent me their picks, the favourites are as follows:
Despite only 4 members participating this year, I had a lot of fun doing this (even if math and statistics aren't my strong point in life xD). Here are the winners of the Y20 Betting Contest!
FIRST Sunfrost (4.45) SECOND Ripley (4.11) THIRD Free (3.82) fourth Lex (3.71)
Frosty, you get a custom foal by moi and a Y22 or Y23 reserve to The Raven courtesy of Kenren!
Ripley, you get the prize donated by free, a foal by Mighty News! He is open for any year.
Free, you get the Prize Pack! Pick any 3 prizes from the following list: 2 Furlong Extension, 1 Furlong Extension, Surface Supreme, Custom Foal Kit, Gender Bender.
Some more fun statistics!
We had a few FULL Trifecta ticket winners in the following races: BREEDER'S CUP FILLY AND MARE MARATHON* - both Free and Sunfrost predicted the correct win/place/show order of finish BREEDER'S CUP FILLY AND MARE DIRT MILE* - Sunfrost correctly predicted win/place/show BREEDER'S CUP MILE* - Free and Ripley all predicted the correct win/place/show, Sunfrost got the trifecta box BREEDER'S CUP JUVENILE TURF* - Ripley was the only one who correctly predicted the top three in the correct order, Free got the Exacta with the top two finishers.
Free and Sunfrost all predicted the top three finishers in the BREEDER'S CUP JUVENILE*, Ripley got the Exacta box by correctly predicting the top two but in the wrong order Ripley and Sunfrost correctly predicted the top three BREEDER'S CUP FILLY AND MARE TURF* albeit in the wrong order for the Trifecta box Free, Sunfrost, Ripley and Lex all got the Trifecta box in the BREEDER'S CUP DIRT MILE*. Sunfrost correctly predicted the Exacta in the BREEDER'S CUP TURF* Free predicted the top three finishers in the BREEDER'S CUP TURF SPRINT* in the wrong order and was the only one to complete the Trifecta box (Frosty predicted the winner) Sunfrost and Ripley predicted the Trifecta box in the BREEDER'S CUP CLASSIC*, and Lex predicted the second and third place finishers Sunfrost got the Trifecta box in the BREEDER'S CUP JUVENILE FILLIES* Free, Sunfrost and Ripley all got the Trifecta box in the BREEDER'S CUP TURF MARATHON*, and Lex correctly predicted the 3rd place finisher Ripley got the Trifecta box in the BREEDER'S CUP DISTAFF* and Free got the Exacta box Free and Ripley correctly predicted the winner in the BREEDER'S CUP SPRINT*, but it was Sunfrost who got the Exacta box Sunfrost and Ripley got the Trifecta box in the BREEDER'S CUP FILLY AND MARE TURF MARATHON* and Free got the Exacta box Lex was the only one who got the Exacta box in the BREEDER'S CUP FILLY AND MARE TURF SPRINT*
