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From my understanding that would be against the rules.

Maribo is correct. You may ask people you sell the straws to, to use them in a certain way but beyond that request, there is nothing you can do to enforce them.

There was some dispute awhile ago about a stud who had some sort of nexus or something that I think was overbred or otherwise contraversial, which might be relevant to this conversation. I just can’t find the thread/s right now. Just an example of how some people can get carried away, I guess.

On a personal note, I almost never stand my boys public. I always put "rules" when I offer straws, but at the end of the day there's no way to enforce them. That said, if they were taken advantage of I would not do business with that player and if the situation wasn't remedied, I would probably block them from my stock. Fortunately I haven't had to do that in several RL years because this community is pretty great. :)

It's always a gamble, though. Once those straws leave your hands, you lose control of how they're ultimately used and aside from blocking (if that's even still possible), there's not much you can do. All that aside, it's great sharing stock and I am glad I get to with other players that have respected the integrity of my lines. And if you are selling any straws, I’d love to buy some myself! ;) Slowly rebuilding a show string lol

If it will bug you if players breed your horses in a way that you wouldn’t, your best bet would be to not stand the horse at all.

@breedingStable when your first starting out to build a show string you are better off to have a wide variety of PT horses.

The high PT horses take a long time to get competitive while the lower PT horses will pick up points here and there all the way up because they tend to stay in the same level for more than a week so can improve their placing.

The best way I’ve found to quickly increase your show bonus is to use the search for public sales and auction horses and sort by total points. Buy as many pointed horses as you can for as low as you can (I only bid 2600 at the auction, if someone bids higher that’s fine there’s always another one) I snip everything I get and show it. Once I’ve filled my barns up I enter the bottom point holders into the next auction and then continue to buy high pointed horses and sell the low ones.