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As far as who to snip and who to leave intact, I strongly recommend that you listen first to whatever testing you have available to you. Use Breeding Advice! It’s free and it will help you weed out inferior horses.

As far as your colt goes, colts are very difficult to sell unless they are something quite special. We all breed roughly 50% colts, but we technically only need one stallion per 50 mares...so everyone has excess colts all the time. I would either hold onto your colt as a future sire or I would ship him to start your show pony herd.

Selling horses or putting horses up for breeding is generally not the way most of us make money in the game. Having a herd of show ponies who all train once a week and show twice a week so they build up points then contributes to your show bonus. For every point the horses you own earn, you earn cash every night in show bonus. It works out to roughly 1hb for every 10 points per night. Many of us earn show bonuses in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of hbs per night. Having that sort of show bonus funds breeding, testing, buying, buying new barns, buying tack packs, all sorts of things.

The best advice I can give any new player is to have at least as many show ponies as you have breeding horses. As you get a bigger barn, you want roughly 3 show ponies per breeder.

The Available to Adopt program has older, well established show ponies with lots of points that they donate to new players for a low cost. They will give your show bonus a bit of a jump start while you work on building your show barn. I will get you the link to the ATA program and put it below.

Oh—and the reason you haven’t gotten your new member pack is our fearless leader is on vacation! She will be back in a few days and welcome packs will go out soon thereafter I am sure!

Thank you, Cheers! This information is very helpful! I have gone to the ATA program on both of my accounts now, and will hopefully hear back soon! I will go through Breeding Advice on everything I have and go from there- thank you so much!

There isnt a whole lot more to say. Cheers about summed it up. I 2nd don't hesitate to ask questions no matter how small you may think it is. We all try to help.