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I didn't become a bigish (nowhere near some but larger than a lot) barn until recently. I never really understood the old showing system, but once that changed my barn blew up. When pastures came out I spent extra money every so often to get them so my breeding stock wasn't taking up space for my show horses. I breed everything lol. Keep the highest gen alters first (especially when barn space is small) because they are more likely to have higher pt scores and auction what isn't deemed keepable and not inhouse only/specific share. Right now I'm sitting on 3702 show horses of all ages and 1751 intact breeding stock of all ages.

What BlueSprings said.

When I first started playing (back in the dark ages) the advice I got as a brand new player was to buy an extra barn if I could and stuff it with the cheap yearling spays and geldings that people dump every breeding season, and then start showing them as soon as I could. That's still sound advice especially now that the show system is so easy and you make money based on the total points your horses have, rather than how they do in shows.... especially since a lot of established members donate horses with hefty points to new members to help them get established.

It's almost impossible to become an overnight success in this game. There's rarely money to be made by selling horses (either because they're ultimately worth about the 2500 hbs it costs to create them, or because in the long run they'd earn you more money sitting in a stall than you'd make by selling them.)

So show, show, show. Use your money to buy IVs, buy barns with those IVs, fill those barns with more horses, show those horses. Pastures make breeding easier but horses in pastures don't show, and so they don't earn points... :)

Once you reach a certain point, it's so much easier to spring for the premium upgrade because it shows FOR you.

Thank you all! I want to have good quality horses and not pay for overpriced horses that are not worth much. I have managed to find a few horses that have a decent amount of points for reasonable prices :)