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For example, here are all my 2gens. This was my third breeding season, so I don't have much, but they're expanding.

My mares. You can tell that I don't really care about clours with them, since some are filled with colours, yet others are rather plain. If they pass breeding advice, I'll keep them. 14 in total as of post.

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And these are my boys. Thor, the oldest, I got winning a contest and I wanna experiment with his sabino. I will probably never replace him. Next is a white spotted splash frame from my favourite foundie stallion. Zippy will get replaced when one of his brothers test greater than sire, since he's only AGA. The next two are half brothers, and will never get replaced. Doubts is hom DP, and Chocolate is chocolate palo appy. The leaves the final one, my appy boy, Splash. He replaced a bay appy this season, since he has so much more colours in him. It may take a while for him to get replaced.

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And when in doubt, comp test the boys! I'm hopefully getting to the point where I can every so often.

I also generally limit my number of stallions because I quite simply don't need as many since a single stallion can breed up to 50 mares. But I tend to use comparison testing to determine which studs to keep, as a first step after breeding advice/papering. I only keep stallions that paper superior to their sires, and if I still have too many I comparison test them against one another to figure out which (if any) are superior. Any superior studs will get kept and the inferior ones will be gelded (or auctioned if I thought they'd sell for more due to colours, etc.).

If you have the room to keep more neutered stock, do so - eventually they'll make more money for you in show points than they will in the auction. But many new stables don't have room to keep ALL of their neutered stock so either pick a few to keep or auction all of them. Currently on HJ2 I sell all my neutered foals because I'm such a new stable, and I buy show horses that already have 100+ show points so that they're automatically adding to my showing bonus rather than having to wait for them to earn some points like with foals.

For mares I'll generally keep all that pass breeding advice and my minimum papering requirements, which are: Yellow for foundations, Red for 2nd gens and will probably be Blue for 4th gens and Gold for 6th gens (I haven't gotten higher than 2nd gen yet so those may be subject to change if it turns out that NO 4th or 6th gens in multiple seasons paper that high). For reference, by stallion minimum paper requirements are C for foundations, B for 2nd gens, A for 3rd gens and probably Star for 5th gens. Notice that yes, this advances faster than the mares but only because I have many more mares than stallions so the stallions get culled more harshly to keep their numbers down and I therefore can afford to keep just the best of the best. This does lead to some uneveness in breeding ability between the mares and stallions but I've yet to figure out a way to avoid this other than to cull my mares so harshly that I only end up with a tiny handful lol.