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I am a seasoned player but have only recently been able to afford to use real cash, occasionally, to add licensed genes. I have Axiom Red and Axiom Blue but made the initial mistake of not paying attention to the paper levels of the horses that I added them to, so that the stallion's paper level was not equal to that of the mare (this means that foals were less likely to pass SBA). I have had to add the Axiom genes to more horses since to balance it up.

I am a recent convert to Watercolour, and like you I am thinking about which horses to add it to before the end of the month. Since it only needs one copy to show up I am thinking of giving one copy to each horse. I currently have one stallion and one mare. The stallion has given me some good foals with a high SBA pass rate so I'm thinking of adding one copy to two or three mares. To this end I am creating exceptional producing mares (since the stallion is B papered) using the daily herd helpers and using gene colours that I like anyway so that if the resulting foals don't get Watercolour then I'll hopefully get something I like. As a long standing player I have plenty of hbs and barn space to create extra horses and then if I don't want to keep any I'll simply put them in the auction. I'm trying to decide how long to wait before making the final decision on which horses to add the genes to and how many I can afford - I have the added complication of using a different currency so have to look at the exchange rates to know how much it is going to cost me!

I don't know if any of that helps you in your decision making, but I hope you get just what you are looking for and I'm glad you are enjoying the game as much as we all do. :)

I definitely go with stallions. If you're looking to do watercolor consider putting it on today's brindle breakout. I just found out yesterday that putting it on stand 1 and 2 will make BOTH strands hom and brindles can look very cool with watercolor.