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I breed even all the way. I'm up to 7th gen even now.

I use a prefix to mark mares (JL) and Studs (JS) and then add a letter of the alphabet to indicate generation after foundation (a- 2nd Gen, b- 3rd Gen, c- 4th Gen etc). My system can go up to 26 generations so haven't run into an issue keeping track. I label both mares and studs with the same generation letter so just have to match them up and don’t have to check pedigrees to make sure they are the same generation.

To go along with what Bandit1119 said, i label my horses with my prefix, HS and then a number plus the letter G to indicate generation. So 1G is foundation, 2G - Second gen, 3G - third gen and so on. After fifth gen, i label mares as HS SB IDNUMBER, the SB indicating Show Breeder. I use letters of the alphabet to indicate specific genes. Lowercase means het and capitalized means hom. And i still have some empty letters for anything new!
Aa - Nacre
B - Brindle
Cc - Chinchilla
Dd - DP
Ee - Splash 3
Ff - Frame
Gg - GP(Server 1) Gray(Server 2)
Hh -
Ii - Ice (followed by number)
Jj -
Kk - KP
Ll - Plaid
Mm - Splash M
Nn - Snowflake
Oo - ND1
Pp - Pearl
Qq - Satin
Rr - Watercolor
Ss - Sooty+
Tt - Thunderstruck
Uu - Mushroom
Vv - Nexus
Ww - Wrong Warp
Xx - Axiom
Yy -
Zz -

Numbers 1-4, and 10 without an "i" in front, refer to white spotting genes

Stallions get proper names while all my mares are simply named with their ID numbers. Both get the prefix and the gene suffixes.

This is an example of a colt. He is fourth gen and is properly named. And following his name are the genes i made notations of :)

HS 4G Fireball DQnkgfi8ps

And a mare. By her name you know shes a second gen. The only other difference from the stud being her name, which is, as said, her ID number.

HS 2G 7960301 qdko10

People label their horses for however is easiest for them to understand so it's usually just personal preference :) A lot of people wouldn't bother with the extent i go to but i have several lines going at once so it makes adding them to pasture much easier