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I particularly like sabino horses and Appys and this is what I think I'd like to aim for. I think maybe I should keep some solid coloured stallions and mares to add into the line to get variation. I haven't got my head round all of this totally, so haven't looked at eras or generations. This is only my second year so not all my horses have AFPT scores yet. I have tested every horse I have will all the tests (premium member)
I'm afraid I have mushy chemo brain and info has problems staying in my head so it's taking me a little longer to get a handle on all of this than it should.
So Should I only be keeping B+ stallions and high PT AFPT scoring mares? I am thinking of making 10 my minimum PT score, does that sound about right?

It's a super complex game, so don't worry about trying to master everything at once!

I'm going to touch on several terms you used in the last post.

Era has to do with the breeders club awards and is an artificial concept used to keep an even playing field so that new players can compete for awards with older, established players with high generation barns. In theory these higher generation horses will always have higher breeding and showing ability than foundations, so a new player starting out with a mostly foundation and second gen herd could never compete. Entering recently created horses in the appropriate Era means they have a chance.

Generation has to do with breeding horses with the same number of in game ancestors together. You can tell the generation of your horses by opening their family page and then opening their full pedigree and counting the columns. For an evenly bred horse, the far right column will have all the oldest ancestors in it completely full. In unevenly bred horses, there will be jags and juts as older and younger generation horses are added into the line.

The reason we breed horses of the same generation is to get horses with what we think is a similar breeding ability to breed to each other. This generally results in more intact foals after testing and will also give you the chance of having that "leap forward" in quality in a few of the foals to further your breeding program for the next generation.

There is no reason to ever cull breeding horses for poor PT. PT relates to showing ability, not directly to breeding ability, so it is a poor indicator for culling breeders. That said, many of us end up in your shoes, with too many horses and not enough space and end up culling mares with low PTs just to have enough room to keep what we want. Just be aware you may be culling nice breeders.

Since you have the premium upgrade, make sure you flipped over to Strict Mare Advice and used it on all of your mares. It's brutal but so effective! Mare Papering is the best test of mare breeding quality, followed by AFPT...so if I were you I might cull my mares on color for now, keeping the colors and patterns that appeal to you, and then cull next season when they have 3 foals on Paper level and AFPT.

With your stallions, I guess you need to decide whether you want to try to breed by generation or just breed by color. With chemo brain, it might be helpful to just breed by color. Right now most of your mares will probably be foundations with some random upper generations you've bought thrown in. Sticking to foundation stallions or B papered gen 2s would make sense.

You may eventually want to come back and start over a bit, breed completely evenly. Lots of players play around for 3-12 months and then clear their barns and sort of start over. I know I did a variation on that myself about 8 months in--culled or sold all my upper gen stock, sold a lot of lower gen stuff too and got really serious about breeding for an aggressive increase in quality in each generation. But again, there is no right or wrong way to play. And you have enough complications and pain in your world at the moment! Please just have fun with this. We are all cheering for you and I hope your chemo regimen is successful!

I have only been playing for a few months. And i have just now decided what i want to do and that means me doing a major cull.

I would do as Cheers is saying. I am very competitive and it is hard for me to compete against myself.

I hope your chemo goes well. Never be afraid to ask questions i dont always know the answers but i will help where i can.

Awesome.