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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
May 2018 Same thing different day for this up and coming gray as she stepped onto the track at Battlestone Downs on the cool spring morning behind her stablemate, Coyote Ugly. This filly was special to her rider, the two had been working together for over a year to get to this point in both of their careers. Only thing was, for Sam Parsons, this was the end of the road for her, Rose would go on to do bigger, better things while Sam would remain just the exerciser for Greasy Creek.
"Chin up, Kiddo!" broke the silence between her and the man on the lackadaisical pinto walking alongside her, his gruff voice breaking her from the gloomy thoughts circling her head, "This is your girl's big day, you should be proud." Sam just shrugged, "I love her, she's a great horse, she's going to be a great racer ... but I won't be riding her." she sounded rather disappointed, "I think grandpa wants me to focus on being an owner and not a jockey." he was even going to let her chose what races to enter Rose in, basically run her entire career, every aspect of it, except actually jockeying her. Frank took a deep breath as they turned onto the track, "You'll still be there for her every step of the way, just not in the way you expected." they walked to the quarter pole as the filly began to prance excitedly, feeling the dirt beneath her feet as Frank started to sing, "You can't always get what ya want." Sam glowered at him and pulled the filly away to gallop her the rest of the way to the first turn.
June, Y18 Giving her soft pink nose one last scratch before sending her on her way, the seasoned trainer kept a close watch on the graying filly as she warmed up for her workout. May had been a bit of a thriller for the Greasy Creek camp as a few of the young upstarts had broken their maidens with style. It was early in the month when Rose stormed home to take her first race at The Wire, a track that was proving to be a bit of a hotbed for the Greasy ponies. Three weeks later with the aspirations set high for the gray, she struggled to hold onto the lead in the final furlong of the grade five Devil's Gap Derby and finished a well beaten third, coming back to the barn looking as dirty as she was dejected.
One thing was for certain, she wanted to win. This morning as the sun was climbing into the sky she was like a ghost in the fog as it burned off to start a new day at a new track. Green Horse Fields was a buzz of activity in the stable yard, but on the oval things were still slow to get going, including our filly. A few taps from the crop didn't do much, until she spotted another horse and took off for the far turn, determined to show herself off as it seemed. Coming into the stretch she pushed a nose in front of the bewildered chestnut and extended still further, coming home to complete her five furlong move in :59 and 3.
September Y18 Last week if asked about their star filly, the connections of Grizzly Rose would have been on top of the world after she won her second straight race in late August at, you guessed it, The Wire. But as she stretched out to a light jog round the clubhouse turn at Battlestone Downs with stablemate Panhandle Slim, the gray wasn’t looking so stellar, neither was her onlooking trainer. Of course she had just finished in the money against colts, what was there to be disappointed about? Maybe, just like any self criticizing artist, Frank Wiseman expected the very best every time.
Nothing could dampen the spirits of the girl who had gotten “her” filly this far. Sam was so excited about the gray’s next start and pushing her grandfather for details on just when that would be so that she could plan around it and be there for her favorite horse, even if she wasn’t in the irons. She had been there last time when Rose had finished just a few lengths from the closing winners, she had put in her all and really tried, just got burned out in the lead this time. The only issue Sam was having at the moment was the horse seemed to literally be a one-trick pony. She could only win at nine furlongs, apparently.
