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Hm. I joined during an October and was bootstrapping by January - I got my first bootstrap stud during Secret Santa that year. I think the hardest part about bootstrapping as a new account is affording testing - 1k for breeding inspection is a lot to have to pay for when you only have an income of 5k a day, for example.

I think your plan is sound - the goal of bootstrapping is to focus on show ponies. I might tweak it though and save a couple of the higher-papered fillies to become broodmares themselves though - there's no penalty for inbreeding in this game, so in four game years you can breed the daughters back to their sire (or another Star stallion) and get even high quality foals.

For example: Silver Tinsel is a gold mare I got from my bootstrap stallion and a foundation. Her foals have PT scores in the high 12-low 13 range.

BS Silver Tinsel UG

I bred back one of her foals, SilverNGold, to the the same stallion. She only has two foals so far, but they have PT scores of 13.5 and 13.6.

BS4 SilverNGold

That way you won't only have to use foundations. There's nothing wrong with doing it your way, though!

@ChateauAlbere, that's how I do it, too. I take the foals and breed back if the paper higher than their dams, then spay the dams after I have enough fillies.

I know a lot of people breed their bootstrapped fillies back to their sire, but I can't bear to inbreed, so I've actually bought 2 Star stallions & a couple high A's. And since then I've bred one Star stallion & several more A's myself! If you keep an eye out, you can find some nice Star/Gold stock to get you started.

Every season I breed them to ExPro/ExPer mares, then keep 10.7 PT or higher foals as show ponies (10.8 starting this season), Blue papered fillies with consistent PT's as producers.