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
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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 It was finally time to get this filly going. After wasting away in a pasture and being untouched until Greasy Creek bought her back from her owner earlier this year, Heat was ready to scorch the track this cool morning at Battlestone. Taken to the turn with two exercise partners, the filly was too green to go it alone and ran between the two older, more experienced mares as they cantered into the backstretch and extended into a gallop. Sam watched the poles flashed by in her peripherals as the gray on the left and the bay on her right kept them company. Heat was comfortable and relaxed, even running on a loose rein as the final turn approached and Sam pushed the chestnut for a little more. She responded well and began to pull away from the other riders, breezing easily into the bend and maintaining her speed at a sensible pace, not quite all out but faster than just a working gallop. She shied in the stretch at the sight of a tractor but recovered quickly enough and continued on to the wire where Sam pulled her up and was joined by the gray and the bay once more for the gallop out.
"Might need blinkers." Sam told Frank as she returned to him and another horse of theirs galloped by, "I saw that." the man replied in his usual quiet way and Sam waited, and waited before finally asking, "Time?" Frank finally looked at her, as if forgetting she was still there, eyes focusing on the other horse on the track. This was a strange guy and this spring was the most she had interacted with her grandfather's new trainer, she was quickly deciding she liked him as a horseman, but not so much as a person, "Good enough." was all he seemed willing to divulge.
September Y18 Greasy Creek’s star racer hadn’t won a race in a hot minute but as the barn’s top money earner, she had that right to take it easy and just get races under her cinch for experience. After a surprise win in the Seaspray Cup Sprint back in July, Mesquite Heat had followed up her performance with a place and another win before she was excitedly entered into the Autumn Cup Sprint to run at Green Horse Fields the same day as Steeldriver. She finished worse than second for the first time in her career, so some backpedaling was Greasy Creek’s next move, wanting only the best for their filly and entered her into softer company for her next start where she couldn’t quite catch the leaders late in the Amazombie Derby at The Wire. A decent effort.
Unlike most of Greasy Creek’s other horses, Green Horse Fields seemed to be Heat’s favorite track and her next start was wisely chosen by Wiseman for the last week in September. If she lost again at her favorite track, running at her favorite distance, perhaps it would be time for a break, though as she pulled eagerly at the reins this morning it didn’t seem like she needed much rest. Hopefully she would feel this good on the day of the Blue Stakes.