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I think the first step is to set a goal for yourself. Do you want to breed for particular colors, or just good show horses. Once you have a goal in mind then you want to start gathering breeding horses that will help meet those goals.

Also hang onto lots of show horses and show them twice every week. They are the best way to make money as their lifetime accumulated points adds to your daily income. I also show all of my breeding horses too.

I dabbled in a bit of everything for a couple months before settling on my black chestnuts. I still have a couple nice KP and GP barns, but they are definitely hobby lines. My liver and black chestnuts are the main focus. I had to realize that I was not patient enough to go with KP on a large scale, and, honestly got a bit bored with GP after the first 2 generations (that has changed now!). I knew from experience that I wouldn't enjoy appys (too many genes to juggle!), and I much prefer to put my energy into the more realistic colors over the fantasy genes. So, for me it was trial and error. I really believe that new players should give themselves a couple months before thinking about settling on their goals. Just my opinion!

Also when it comes to even breeding are eras important?

Okay thanks! @ColorGoodStables

Your welcome :)
I would suggest you focus on well bred even horses and less on which Era they come from

@best friend @ColorGoodStables Thank you all for your help!

I have only been playing for a short time and still havent really figured out my goals so for now my main thing is breeding evenand strive for quality until i figure out my colors and genes.

I would definitely do some trial breedings, if for no other reason than learning how all the different options work. Breed, test, send the sub-par foals to auction, etc.

I'm going to go back to the GP/KP question. They are complicated, hidden genes that take a lot of patience and dedication to breed for.

In the Genetics Guide, Ammit describes GP under Hypothetical Genes. These are genes that currently have support from genetic science, but the exact genes have not been located or proven to exist. Gulastra Plume is based on a real chestnut Arabian stallion who sired many foals with tails that were white from the bottom up. He didn't show this trait himself, and other things can cause similar tail markings--Splash, for instance. In the game, a horse has to be homozygous for the GP game gene and bay-based for GP to show up. However, a heterozygous GP buckskin horse will have a grayish tail and a few light flecks in the mane. Ammit gave us this help when she introduced GP as a puzzle for us to solve when she introduced the gene as a challenge when she created the 2-millionth (I think that's correct) horse in HaJ 1.

Ammit does classify Kit Promoter as a Fantasy Gene because it was something she introduced "to test random marking generation in the game." It does mimic some of the occasional somatic mutations in real life that can give horses non-typical odd-colored areas on their bodies. It is not based on any real mutation of this type, however. In the game KP only manifests itself when it is homozygous and a horse has 2 mutated Kit copies--Kit?, not just Kit.

You can see exactly what Ammit says about these two genes for yourself by visiting the Genetics Guide.

I think part of my confusion about KP is that it has, and remains, in it's own Breeders Club. It was not moved over to the Fantasy Genes club with Nexus, Ice, and Axiom. It may also be that my definition of 'fantasy' is a gene that could never occur in real life as we know it now. Kind of like the unicorn horn is a fantasy tack addition, but the saddles are not.

You have a solid foundation herd there. I didn't open everyone but I recognize several rank specials. And I see you have several Perfect Foundations. I would highly recommend you just play around with those kids for now and also spend some time looking at Show Off threads for foals and 2 year olds (which will start coming out in the new year and as breeding season starts back up), browsing the color based Breeders Clubs and playing with the horse search, especially the color and pattern tabs. Get a feel for what's out there. Browse the GMT lab to get an idea how much cool patterns cost. Find a couple of players who you think breed neat looking stock and try to get an idea of their overall program. Ask questions. And don't forget to spend some hbs to build up a show pony herd so that you can fund purchases when you decide what direction you want to breed in!

@SandycreekFarm Yes, I noticed that after a second take. Thank you! I am quite interested in seeing what comes out of my stock.

Good thing about bringing in a new draft by another player is she may be older and have some points to contribute to your bonus

Would this horse affect my DD line?
http://hj2.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=599991

I would say she should fit in quite well. I believe that both your stallions are perfect foundations, just as she is, and she gives you a good chance for buckskins if crossed with Dirty China, and almost anything with your Blackest Night stallion, depending on what her exact genetics are at Extension (red/black) and Agouti (where the bay gene is found).

I have a few draft mares from a series of creates. I can set them aside if you like - I think most are gray or black splash, and all have passed SMA