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Haha, yeah they've all be free tested. I can't decide which is more important to be. I obviously want good show horses but I'm also getting into breeding a lot more.

While what confluence says is basically correct, breeding really top quality breeding horses will always give you a selection of good show ponies with excellent PTs. Conversely, if you choose to breed inferior stallions or mares for their generation, your PT scores will eventually suffer compared to players breeding top quality breeders at the same generation.

Since it is much easier to assess the breeding quality of a colt than a filly, I would paper (and if you can afford it, compare your favorites) your colts and PT your fillies. But eventually your best possible measure of breeding quality in your mares is an Average Foal PT, so your eventual goal may be to PT everything. Superior breeders will produce foals with superior PTs, on average, when you compare apples to apples (same generation, same stallions to the same batch of mares, same pasture bonus).

Some of my top stallions have low PTs, sometimes even lower than my personal cut off for their generation. I know some older players who PT, paper and compare their colts and will geld the higher PT colts for show ponies (since geldings/spays get the increased training bonus) and keep the lower PT but equal breeding ability colts as their breeders.

If any of that doesn't make sense, please don't hesitate to ask.

Papering it is then! I love seeing good PTs on my babies but it doesn't seem as important. Not to mention I have been neglecting my Colts and haven't been Papering like I should (only Papering ones that I actively breed)
I've recently been selling some of my Colts to newer players and I would feel awful if I had sold them a bad colt simply because I didn't want to paper him.