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That is totally up to you.

Each member uses their pastures a little differently, but I think the typical practice is to put same generation horses in and breed them to a same generation stallion. When that breeding is done, the horses are moved back to the stables and a different generation is put in.

In your case, that would mean breeding your foundation horses then moving them back to the stables to make room for your second generation horses.

Though I have heard of members breeding their foundation mares with second generation stallions (with second generation mares also in the pasture) to get show horses.

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Best friend, both of those things take time.

If you can, I would suggest investing in a pasture. Ammit has some pretty great deals going on for the holiday season.

If that isn't possible at the moment, I might suggest focusing on getting foals on the ground because, if your talking about Halloween Dancer, I think he doesn't have many seasons left. Since testing mare quality is difficult, I would try to get a lot of intact fillies so that when you breed them - after three foals - you can check their papering score.

I would also suggest stocking up on Halloween Dancer straws if you are worried about missing out on foals now.

Best friend, that is a significant progression in your breeding! Five superior colts is a lot and they will do well to produce the next generation of Halloween Dancer's bloodline.

Now you can start looking for fillies to breed those colts to. If you line breed, you can always geld the excess colts and keep them as show horses. If you want to avoid inbreeding, you can always keep all the superior colts intact and use them in alternating seasons.

2 of them are brothers. So should I keep both?

Best--if you only have a very few gen 2 mares ready to breed in this line, I would probably keep your foundations in pasture this season in the hopes that Dancer makes it through roll over and can give you another pasture full of foals. This is obviously a gamble, but it sounds like you have a better chance of getting a high number of foals with the full pasture bonus that way than if you rotate out your mares now.

With any luck you could breed your foundations on the first day of pasture breeding, pull them out and put in your gen 2s, breed them 15 days later with the half bonus and then evaluate where you go from there.

You might get GMTs from your SS and you could use a couple to change one of those superior colts to fillies.