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
Take Flight Merry Bay King x Flying Loose 60-25-18-20, 88%
2YO WINS January Juvenile Turf Faceoff Burning Blaze Stakes Lexus Raven Run Stakes* Take The Chance Stakes July Juvenile Turf Faceoff September Juvenile Turf Faceoff Bonnie Heath Turf Cup The Great White Way Stakes BREEDERS' CUP JUVENILE TURF*
3YO WINS West Virginia Derby* Coronation Cup* Derby Stakes* Ascot Gold Cup* BREEDERS' STAKES* (CTC Leg)
4YO WINS Unicorn Horn Turf Classic* Sillenia Memorial Stakes* Spring Cup Grade One Turf* Sheema Classic* Doncaster Cup* Anathema Stakes R2 Full Moon Derby* Sword Dancer Stakes* Continental Cup* The True Nut Memorial Stakes* BREEDERS' CUP TURF*
Take Flight was a powerhouse throughout his career, and it only takes a glance at his record to see it. He was a bit unprecedented at two, running mostly undercards but rolling to enough wins that he showed his class all in one finishing blow in the Breeders' Cup. At three he ran strongly in HOTY competition, running 2nd in each leg of the Turf Triple Crown before finding victory in his one competed leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Breeders' Stakes*. He went on to finish 3rd that year in the Breeders' Cup Turf Marathon*. At four he truly came to life. He was a division leader all year, winning well over half of his races, and capped off a truly great career with a win in the Breeders' Cup Turf*, his second Breeders' Cup win.
I voted no on Take Flight entering the HOF at this time. He was a superior older horse, but I would have liked to see more of him in the higher level races like the Dubai World Carnival, Twilight Stakes, World Colt/Turf Cups that happened in that latter half of the racing season.
His two year old and three year old seasons were solid, but didn't carry the weight I would need to vote him in.
Post by S u N f r O s T ~ on Dec 13, 2018 10:55:56 GMT -5
This horse reminds me a lot of Silent Fury - steadily good, but only dominant in the last season on the track. He has the BC wins and the performance, but he really only dominated in his final season on the track. His two year old season was good, his three year old season was solid but not exemplary, and his senior season was incredibly impressive, but I think more than one truly impressive season is needed for HoF.
I voted no as well, just wanting to see more than a solid season or two, with more of the High Stakes HOTY races like the above mentioned to really carry the weight to be admitted into the HOF.
