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I have lots more mares in my other barn:) If you want to check them out

Grey Velvet is looking idea for a foundation mare. She and your heart of the holidays stallion should make fantastic babies.

Cat fight is good too, don't really know about Catella, but you have her for sale, so I'm assuming you aren't trying to decide if she is a keeper.

Yes, I didn't like Catella's foal much.

Any thoughts on my stallions? My babies maybe?

Eclipse is another rank special, but she is exceptional. Unless you can find an exceptional stallion to breed her to things might be interesting. You could trow her in with the 2g horses with probably good success, but then you would have uneven. Some people frown on that, or you can breed her to your rank special foundation boy, and if you get any intact fillies they would be garnered really good, but intact fillies would be unlikely, but she could give you really high quality 2g colts possibly.

Ok, now to get a better look at your stallions now that I am more awake.

Not sure about Topaz mare.

Posh, I'd want him to be star papered and at least his father, preferably grandfather to be star papered by that high a generation (I want to say 7 or 8?) If you are breeding him for show ponies that's all right, but honestly I don't think he is even that high an A)

Crimson is a wildcard, and unless you really like something about him, height, color, bone density, I would sell or geld him and focus most of your foundation breeding with Gold, since we know he is a good stallion.

Tycoon is good 2g stud.

Mr Magic seems consistent enough, he's just a wildcard. I think He's a decent boy, but don't know.

Presidential toast. Really don't like how he threw a spayed mare with a foundation. One foal isn't enough to give a verdict, but since you can't do comparison tests or stallion papering I think selling him is the right idea.

Ok, so, things are interesting without upgrades. I remember when I was there, and when I upgraded I found that all my stallions I loved so much were toast. (My pride and joy was a c papered 3g...) I'd suggest leaning heavily on stallions that you know the quality of and comparing your other stallions to them. You want your boys to be same quality or preferably better than your girls, so go ahead and breed your unknown stallions to same generation mares and look, preferably you want most fillies intact and proportionately more geldings than spayed mares. If you have a stallion that throws a lot of spayed mares but you get lots of intact colts from him that means he is having difficulty matching your mares' qualities and your mares are easily better than him. Those ones you geld.

Also never realized that posh is a bit uneven. Not sure whether I'll keep him or not.

Alright, I'll do that.

My first thought is that almost 1/3 of your Barn is stallions. I would cut that down a little. There are so many good stallions standing for public breeding each year that you can get by with fewer stallions when your Barn is small. Based on my standards here is what I would do with your stallions:

Stallions I would keep based on their paper level/known quality:
Davinci
Eagle Kiss
Little Tycoon
House of Gold
Mr Magic
Stolen Kiss

Sixth Jackpot I would geld because his sire is a *star and he is only an A so that would be going backwards in quality to me.

Autumn Colors, Happy Feat and Magic Show I would save up and comparison test them to Little Tycoon. I would geld them if they test worse than Little Tycoon.

Ok thanks :) the stallion I had in mind for her papered star :)