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
Kenren
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Cruisey
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Sunfrost
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Lolly
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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
One thing is certain: Exotic Dancer is getting better with age. The grey daughter of TDI Live This Lie had a quiet start to her career, winning two races and finishing second in The Dark Sunrise Distaff* at two, but she just never seemed to sparkle. She was missing that 'wow' factor, and at one point as even slated to be sold. However, there was something about her that just screamed that she had more to give, so that second chance was given.
Whatever had been missing at two, Zoey seemed to tap into at three. Suddenly she was regularly finishing in the money, and more than made up for her lack of wins at two with seven trips to the winner's circle - including a win in The Skip Away*. As the filly grew, she seemed to want more than the one-turn mile that she'd been boxed into, and we decided to give her a shot in the Dirt Filly Distance Series. And while she didn't win in the series, she did pull out thirds in the Harrisburg Oaks** and Oklahoma City Oaks**, and then went on to win an eleven furlong undercard in December.
We started to ask ourselves, then - did this filly perhaps have more of her dam in her than originally thought? Fire Dancer improved with age, working her way steadily longer into first a second, then a win, in the Breeders' Cup Marathon** against males. Exotic Dancer has shown flashes that she could be on the same path. And so, Cole Mavecci started tailoring the filly's training program toward distance, and the strong filly has absolutely relished it. She is slated to run her first race of the year ambitiously in the Joint Venture Derby* at 11.5f, and from there? "Well, it's going to depend some on how she does, but she'll probably bounce back and forth this year between getting that good experience and getting undercard wins, and she'll probably do her best running at five. It's hard to say, though, isn't it?" Cole Mavecci is optimistic that this filly will continue to trend in the right direction.
Exotic Dancer was bred by Stride of Perfection Stables, and both parents reside at Indigo Morning Stable.
(TL;DR: Exotic Dancer has been given a furlong extension to reach 12 furlongs and will be pursuing marathons this year!)
