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There are two ways of doing this. I do it by putting an unevenly bred star stallion in a pasture with yellow and red mares solely to get second gens with slightly better PT scores. I put them all through SBA and add them to the show string.

Formal bootstrapping is breeding high papered stallions to low papered mares, not putting the offspring mares through breeding advice and then breeding the daughters back to the sires. Or something like that. Continuing this process can get the breeding levels up more quickly than sticking to even breeding.

Some players prefer the symmetrical look of evenly bred pedigrees, but Ammit is very adamant that there is nothing wrong with breeding uneven generations. Matching paper levels, regardless of generations, will produce more intact foals than mixing C stallions with Red or Blue mares, for instance.

Breeding horses primarily for sale is not the best way to make money in this game--collecting a strong show string is much better. Unless you have some particularly special, much desired genes, prices for ordinary horses need to be fairly low to generate much interest.