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It's a game of patience. I would really recommend that you play a while until you have figured out the mechanics of the game and then start working on your major goal.

If you want to start from the beginning and work your way up from C or B to *Star with stallions and from Yellow or Red to *Gold for mares, you have to be ready to work for game years to get there. You also have to be ready to cull your foals strictly to weed out the poor breeders every single generation.

I would start with either Perfect Foundations, which are the best breeders ordinary create horses can be or with exceptional producers or exceptionally perfect foundations which have an edge or about a generation, or have the breeding ability of a good 2nd generation horse.

I would also recommend, as soon as you are able to do it, purchasing a Premium Upgrade so that you can have access to the full range of testing options, because otherwise you will be working blind for the most part, in determining the quality of the foals.

Then, you have to breed a crop of 2nd gen foals from your foundations. Colts have to age up to 3 (their 3rd month in real life) and mares until they are 4 before you can breed them.

You can also buy horses of different generations and good quality and start from there. Just remember that a lot of players are going to be keeping their best horses for their own stables, so you wouldn't always be able to get top quality offspring right away.

With careful breeding, you should be able to be keeping B papered colts from an ordinary create line by 2nd gen and A papered colts from an exceptional producer line by the same. Mares are a bit harder to tell. They start later breeding and there are fewer tests. In both cases, the clearest marker of breeding quality is the Average Foal Performance Test score of a mare or stallion. Does each generation produce foals with a higher AFPT than its parents? If not, then you need to be stricter about culling.

All of this can be very expensive, so what you should be doing all along is keeping your neutered show horses and showing all your breeding stock, because the horses you are showing will be gathering show points for competing in shows. This is what powers your showing bonus that will eventually be bringing in enough game cash to fund your stable almost completely.