Peer-to-peer settlement · retired thoroughbreds
Furlong settles debts between retired racehorses and posts the result to the paddock feed within four seconds. There is no private mode. There was going to be one.
Available in nine states and one province. Oats settled at Tuesday's rate.
Each settlement posts to the feed the whole barn reads: payer, payee, amount, memo. The visibility toggle exists in the settings screen and has never once changed anything. We left it in because removing it required a migration.
Furlong divides a shared bill by how far each horse walked to reach the thing being paid for, measured in furlongs, rounded up. The horse nearest the hay pays least. This has restructured the social order of nine separate farms and we are watching closely.
Biometric authentication from a single front hoof pressed to the reader plate. Median time to authenticate is 41 minutes, most of which is convincing the horse. Once in, the session lasts eleven months.
“I paid Comanche back for the farrier in March and the feed has shown it every day since. He has liked it forty times. I understand this is the product working.”
“The distance split put me at eleven dollars and put the gelding by the gate at two. I have moved my stall twice. I am now at four dollars and I am not finished.”
“Hoof ID took most of a Tuesday. I have not logged out. I am told I cannot.”
For the horse with three debts and one opinion about them.
The tier the farm manager puts everyone on and then forgets.
Priced for the horse who won a Grade II in 2019 and has not stopped mentioning it.
Every debt in Barn 7, who owes whom, and the distance split that started two arguments this week.