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You have 27 intact foals this year, and 38 last year and you have only had 3 days of breeding season. That is hardly 99%. This seems like an awful lot of drama over a tiny increase in the number getting altered.

Now I am willing to help look at your crosses for you, but not if you are just going to make things up. ;)

I will point out as well you don't really know how to play because you skipped learning how breeding works on good foundations and skipped right into shiny colors of who knows what quality and spending a fortune of rank special horses. I would strongly suggest you get a solid knowledge base on how breeding works by starting a plain foundation line and breeding them. Learn the game. You are doing it all on hard more right now and making yourself frustrated for no reason. Just breed some foundations and enjoy them without having to fight with crazy colors and expensive breedings. You are trying to have the sort of breeding string that people who have played the game for years struggle to improve.

I'm not sure if I'd be ok with selling all my stock but I do have more money to start a new line of foundations and would absolutely love your help :)

You would do best to sell off the breeding stock, or alter it and keep it for showing. You could make back most of what you spent on them, and they are never going to give you anything but show ponies as you don't have a large enough concentration of similar quality horses to continue to improve them. You would be better off without them draining your resources, disappointing you when the foals are culled. I am sure you can find a few people who would love to take them off your hands and can find a better place for them in their breeding programs. That being said, I am still willing to help you. I managed to get two superior sons fairly easily. One is inconsistent, so you don't have to take him if you don't want. They are also a pony and a cob, sorry, I prefer my horses closer to the ground.

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Your goal should be to focus on breeding at least 50-100 intact second generation mares to pair these two with. Having a foundation mare herd of at least 75-100 horses is your best way to accomplish that. You should average around 25-30 intact mares per breeding cycle with a herd that size. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

I will put them up on buddy sale for you.

You should buy 75-100 Foundation mares, and 2-3 foundation studs from the foundation rescue. Use those horses to build a herd of roughly 100 second generation mares. The fact that you will need so many foundation mares is another reason why I suggested selling off your current breeding stock. You are going to need both the money, and the room. It is best to keep these mares in pastures if at all possible.

You don't have to wait till you have all 100 second gen's to start breeding, but Hunt and Jump is a number's game. The more you breed the greater your chances of getting an intact horse. I have found 100 horses to be the minimum size of any generation to get me enough horses to move on to the next generation. Fewer than that and a bad run of luck leaves you without enough horses to breed for the next generation.

This is what it takes to build a solid line. It's not something you do with 10 or 20 horses. It can be done with fewer, say 50 horses, but it is going to take twice as long.

What do I do with my horses that have points and I use for show?

Rank specials you have, like King's Ransom, Champagne Fizzy, and Good China are all perfect/exceptional foundations, so keep them intact. I'd either keep them, or offer them back to the people you get them from, and if they don't want them, sell them, but rank specials are better intact.