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I will say first that I'm lucky enough to be able to keep most of my foals, so I have a good record right there, looking at a stallion or mare's family page and evaluating their offspring.

I try to stick to a "three strikes" policy for culling mares--so altered foals, foals with PT below my cutoff, the mare's PT and her paper level all count as strikes and if she gets 3, I either spay her for my show line, or spay and auction. If I cull a mare for underperformance, that is automatically a strike against her daughters. I make notes on mare pages as I sort pasture foals...I give mares that produce foals from straws extra leeway since they don't have the pasture bonus to help them out. Producing a colt that papers "Showable Only" is usually an automatic cull for that mare for me...

Most of my foundation stallions are on par with each other as far as breeding ability, so I'm not much worried about how pairs do at the foundation level. I do try to keep my best mares for my best stallions at Gen 2, for that I'm mostly relying on mare papering and my memory, but in the next two seasons my gen 2 mare numbers are going to explode and I will have to work out a new method. At the moment most of my mares live in the pasture, which helps with sorting since I have the pastures named "Wild Bay" or "Nexus" so I just have to slot in the appropriate stallion and away we go...again, this is going to get harder in the next few seasons as I have more lined mares and will need to rotate out some of those pastures to give me room for lined mares.