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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
Things have been fairly quiet around BCM of late, with the owner keeping a lot more to herself these days. We were able to get a quick status update for Y21, as well as an official retirements bulletin. It’s not the usual fanfare or expanded interview we’re used to – but we’re happy to be able to share a report at year’s end.
RETIREMENTS -----SIX YEAR OLDS----- Mochachina
-----FIVE YEAR OLDS----- Classy Lady Ghost Miss Abilene
-----FOUR YEAR OLDS----- Appalonia Amun-Ra Bellona Delightful Pyne Frosted Sunrise Gala Royale Just Rewards Mircalla Sierra Sonny’s Gem Superstition The Huntress Windfallen Wired
For Y21 for the first time in many years, BCM will not be beginning the year with any G1 horses. They are hopeful their G2 animals will be competitive against the already graded racers, and that their somewhat late blooming G3 classics will pick up quickly into G2 early in their four-year-old years. Despite all these retirements, BCM will still be hosting ten five and six-year-old horses in the coming year – although some will be for sale.
Approximately half or so of this crop will be undercarding out at some point during the first half of the year, and if the other half don’t pick up into HOTY they also will be retired early. The sole older stallion that BCM is gearing up to showcase for the entire year is Frankenstein, who only pulled in two early wins last season. Gathering up a great deal of back class, it is hoped he will take off leading quickly into the HOTY older division for BCM.
It is thought that Y21 will be the year of the ladies for BCM: their superstar lineup of three-year-olds fillies will be fully in form come January. Bedazzled, Deceptive Darling, Pilgrim, Scripture, Twice Charmed, and Without A Trace will be seen very competitively when those chutes open. For the boys, keep your eye on Devilishly Charming. Battle Bluez has slipped for us, but Wraith is on the upswing. Don’t lose sight of wild card Shadow On The Moon, who although hasn’t gotten his hooves dug into HOTY yet, has stacked up the undercard wins this last season.
They’re giving a nod to their mixed bag of juveniles, some HOTY winners, a few undercard challenges, but most have given a respectable middling form of result. No one can tell what they’ll do with some extra maturity and some breaks this December and January, some of our lowest performing animals last year became our best classics, so we don’t hold anything against anybody this early on.
The name of the game of late for BCM has been slimming and trimming down – there were retirements throughout the year, and it is expected the same result will occur next season, most likely just as quietly. There will be some breedingstock for sale as well as a few racers in the year end sale, as the stable is producing smaller foal crops now, and it’s possible more might go in to the spring sale.
The highlight juveniles coming into Y21 for BCM:
Centurion – HOF Eternally Smoldering x HOF Impress The Moonlight Seven Metals – Simba x Blue Heroine Twilight’s Ecstasy – Furious Passion x Moondance (Moondance’s last foal) Druscilla – Flying Solo x Loud And Clear (full sibling to Windfallen) Princess In Diamonds – Merry Bay King x Sugar Demon (the very last MBK foal to hit the tracks, *passes Frosty a tissue*)
What some beautiful bloodlines you have coming onto the track this coming year. Wishing you all the best of luck. We too are starting the year with no G1 runners, let's hope it pays off!
