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These are mostly Exc Producers that I have. The other's, such as my appaloosa's, I'm breeding matching generations on them and hoping i can increase breeding rather than pt. I've got way too many mares, I don't have time in one year/month to breed them all and of course each year will produce more mares. And I don't have enough star stallions. I also don't have the barns for them. Hoping payday will spare me a barn.

I don't cull my show horses until they are 10 years old. All my show horses are foals I've bred, they mature with me. Starting at 10/11 years old, I use the search feature to sort them by points earned in the current year. I have to jump to the end of the list, and that shows me the lowest point earners. The lowest points are not increasing their daily payout anymore so they start getting the boot into auction. I do not cull on PT because the lower PT horses do well in the lower show levels. The 7W lelvel is my money making level.

I am a viscious culler of breeding horses. I only keep breeding horses that meet my genetic requirements. Nearly all my mares are superior and all my studs are definitely superior. If they missed DP or a S+, they get snipped and added to the showstring. I keep way more show horses than breeding horses. I have very few studs, as I am very picky and snip so many.

if you know the names of the ones you want to cull you can check a bunch of them at a time on the barn level and click spay / geld on the bottom of the page ; it will ask you to confirm a few times to make sure but yes you can do an entire barn that way

Totally out of curiosity and nosiness how does a pixel come to have sentimental value? (you don't have to answer if you prefer not)

is any of that coherent? i get the feeling I didn't explain very well.I just mean to track the horses value until retirement, and see if it is going up or down.

5 or 6 points. i'm coming to the conclusion it isn't worth the trouble to go through every 5 pointers so see if they gain in payout or if their hb points not advancing not per day, per where the horse currently is in it's training etc. I would then just automatically cull the 5s and lower taking into account the horses's age

a 5 PT score? or 5 hbs a day payout?
either of those is a no they are really not worth keeping
my show herd started as a mimimum 10 PT score and is now a 10.5 anything under that goes to auction.

May I ask how you get life time payout?

My sentimental pony is the one I created on my 25th birthday, it's a shame she's yellow papered as she mostly throws spelds, but she's beautiful and I won't get rid of her.


1G Silver Sentinel

Nothing wrong with a foundation being yellow paper, she's beautiful!

As for culling, I don't cull much, but if you were short of space putting spay/geld foals into auction and instead buying some under 6yo pointed foundations can be more economical in the short/medium term. But it's good to keep some foals to have those higher PT's grow up and add to the daily bonus.
Culling on show results I would only do if they have a daily show bonus under 200 and were levelled off in a non profitable spot, so at the bottom of their class thus unlikely add too many more points to their payout. They should be at least 10yo by then so can cash in whatever their lifetime payout is.
If you are trying to analyse show results to indicate a good shower, you can't really, except look at where they are in their classes and see when they might go up a class. A horse that levels off near the top of their class is a very good thing, they will often keep adding a lot of points during most of their lifetime