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Cool. Now don't want to sound rude, just want to make sure you have all the information. Why are you retiring him? (I'm assuming you're referring to gelding) His training has leveled off, so there will be now show bonus gained by gelding him at this point, so all you will do is prevent yourself from breeding to him or getting any breeding royalties off of him at all. He is mid aged, but he is still young enough that you will probably get a decent price if you decided to sell hi as an intact RS stallion. If you are attached to the idea of retiring him, go ahead, though as far as warning you money at this point he is still going to get you more money intact if you show him and put him up for breeding if even only one person breeds to him. Just something to think about.

@WildlandAcres I was just going to retire him since I don't use him as a stud anymore but if he would be better intact then I will do that :) Tbh I didn't know he was a RS all this time I've had him :)) Though he is my second create on here so I'm too attached to him to sell lol Thanks for the tips, I would have lost some money just retiring him! :) Also I would like to know if you lose your show bonuses off of leveled horses, I didn't know that.

Show Bonus is the nightly infusion of HBs you earn for the points you “own” from your horses’ showing. It is earned as long as you own the horses who have earned you points...if you sell them or they age out of the game, you lose the show bonus they earned you.

Spayed and gelded horses do get a training bonus, but as Confluence has explained, horses that have leveled off train at a negliglble amount. Gelding your boy will not result in any significant training bonus because he has leveled off.

I didn’t look at your boys stats when I replied to the post earlier. I agree with Wildland as far as his earning potential into the future—he has very few points accrued and does not appear to have leveled off in the “sweet spot” at or close to the top of his class. He’s consistently placing in the bottom half of his class, so if he were mine, I would probably keep putting him up for public stud and keep showing him (he’s still usually adding a few points to his total each week, and every point counts!) to maximize his earning potential.