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These are the 3 primary studs I need to cull from. I will know more once I paper them all. Color and looks are tough because I like them all! haha

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I start by culling based on SBA (BA if you don't have SBA), paper level and inconsistency. I don't allow my breeding horses to be inconsistent, but if I have a particularly special colt colorwise I may allow it to go through the rest of my colt testing and spend a GMT if he makes it to the end.

If you don't have a benchmark stallion for that generation, compare to sire or to the best stallion at the sire generation. Anyone who is a AGA gets snipped--they aren't improving your line significantly.

If you have more than one that is Superior, you can compare them to each other. Hopefully one will be superior to his brothers and you can keep that one. Alternatively, you could compare them to something you already know is better--you could compare Bay Watcher's sons to one of your B papered ExP stallions for instance, or your colts from ExP stallions to a low A gen 3.

If you still have more than one colt, and you can't separate them based on color, many people choose to snip the colts with a higher PT. Those colts will benefit more from the show bonus and be a better show pony for you, while having a slightly lower PT won't hurt your stallion because his primary job is as a baby maker.

Cheers has given you some wonderful advice so there's not much else to add. The one thing I will say is that if you're looking at your colts that you got from breeding to outside stallions, a mid level B papered 2G colt would be perfectly acceptable for that, assuming that both parents are ordinary non boosted foundations. It's pretty difficult to get a high B papered 2G colt that's AGA a low A papered colt from 2 ordinary foundation parents if you're having to breed without any pasture bonus.

I'd assume that if you bred to an outside stallion it's because he has some sort of gene or trait that you want to incorporate into your breeding stock and you don't own your own stallion with that gene to breed to instead. In these cases, a mid level B papered 2G colt should be just fine since a mid B is still a big improvement in quality if the parents are C X Yellow. Then if you get a superior colt later on you can always snip the mid level B papered one. But I wouldn't snip the mid Bs unless you already have a high B, because if you have to breed to only outside studs to get this gene, you may never get that high level B since you won't ever have pasture bonus. This is assuming that both parents are ordinary or perfect foundations, if you're breeding 2 exceptional foundations together then you should really be expecting A papered colts even if you're breeding to outside studs.