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You might sort all of your show horses by PT score and cull the foundations with scores that are lower than the lowest of your lined neuters. Or, another strategy would be to cull show horses with a PT score lower than 9.5, and hold that as a standard for any future foundations neuters. You could also hold 2nd gen neuters to a standard of 10 PT, 3rd gens to a standard of 10.4 or something like that.

I checked out your show horses and found quite a few with less than a 9.0 PT that are not gathering many points. Culling those would give you more room. You might want to go at it gradually--this week cull all 9.0 and below. Two weeks later, the ones with PT scores between 9.1 and 9.4 with less than 100 points. At the beginning of next game year, all the rest between 9.1 and 94. Such a strategy would make less of a shock to your showing bonus, because the lined show horses would all the time be adding to their show scores (if not leveled off) and so, for the most part, adding more points as they climb the showing ladder and so maybe give a cushioning effect to the decrease in points from losing the low PT scores.

I have a few foundation mares that I'm using for breeding right now that have really good show records, too. I'm getting to the point where I'll have to start culling, and I'm probably going to use their show record as a basis.

I figure as long as you've got the stalls, keep ALL the THINGS! It can't hurt, and if you need a stall you sell/auction/delete the lowest pointed poorest performing horse.

Update: I culled everything under a 10.3 that had less than 100 points and wasn't part of my breeding herd. I cleaned out my breeding herd as well to narrow it down to genes I want to keep with what my current goals are.

I purchased a good deal of show horses with higher PT scores in the auction to fill up my barns. Most of them are foals but once they get older I feel like they will by far out perform some of the other horses I had as part of my show string.

I now have a slightly higher ratio than 3 show horses for every 1 breeding horse. I'm hoping to get more barns once my show string starts bringing in money so I can continue to grow my show string and have room for new horses from this upcoming breeding season.

After all the culling and replacing, I am back up to almost 800 hrs per day as my showing bonus (which is higher than it was before all of this).

Thank you everyone for your help! I feel like I'm much more on track now.