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Make sure you keep the horses that are making your daily bonus.

I will third the daily bonus is important. It might seem insignificant at the moment but I regret not keeping my spayed and gelded horses. They are essentail.

But for your original question. While you have limited space I would start with foundations whether you decide to use C/Yellow or B/Red, that is personal preference. I would suggest getting rid of any breeding stock that doesn’t fit the breeding program you want. (If the mares and stallions that don’t fit have a decent amount of points 200+ Geld or spay them and keep them)

Next since you like 4 things see if you can’t make a line that has all 4 things in it. Have a herd of black mares EE aa CC, or Ee aa CCcr, and breed them to a stallion that is EE, aA, CcrC then you will be getting both black and buckskins. Have Appaloosas in your mare group as well as a few black based grays, and you can also have a few buckskin mares as well. Breed them to your buckskin stallion and you will have foals in every color you are wanting.

It looks like buckskins need to have at least one dominant E, one dominant A, and at least one Ccr.

Black needs at least one E, and no A gene. To be black

Gray just needs one dominant G to turn the horses gray eventually. Gray is dominant over every other gene.

Last tip. I would highly recommend having no more that two foundation stallions when you are starting out. One they take up space a show horse could have, two you can only use so many stallions a year, three if you want different genes you could easily find a stallion that has those up for public breeding at a decent price.

I hope this helps give you some ideas.

Thanks so much! I'm definitely not running into money issues, more just looking for direction. Thanks so much for the advice!