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I have no problem breeding closely related horses. As long as they have a chance of producing the quality and colors I want, I will breed cousins, half siblings and even full siblings. I would even consider parent to offspring, depending on the line. In real life, inbreeding or linebreeding is an extremely valuable method of breeding. It helps to "fix" desired traits and also to weed out undesirable traits. Since the game doesn't have any genetic disorders, then the only "undesirable" genes would be whatever genes you prefer not to have. For me, I am trying to eliminate standard bay (A) from my herd, so all my foundation stallions do not have that allele, and most of my mares do not. I interbreed the resulting generations based on which pairing is more likely to give the genes I want and less likely to pass on genes I don't want - for example, I don't breed two A gened horses, but I will breed an A to an A+, At or a gened horse, no matter how closely related.
That said, if you chose not to inbreed closely, you will have to come up with a way to organize your horses to keep bloodlines straight.