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I make sure my horses are shown twice a week.
Then in the second half of the month I’ll do a form search based on age starting with the oldest 18+ to my 10yr olds. I will then do Advanced Search- points this year. Then starting at the end of the search, I put an A in the beginning of every horse’s name who has earned less than 20 points this game year, on a game year I’m really desperate for space I may even cull up to the horses earning 30 points in a game year, but I try not to do that too often.

All my show horses names start with Zz so when I put the A In front of their name; later I can go back and in the barns sort by name and mass select them then put them in the auction, it saves a lot of time for me to do it that way.


ExampleI of my older show horses. I will cull numbers 92-122
https://www.huntandjump.com/adv_search.php?runsearch=go&ageg=17&f_adv=points&stallion=0&mare=0&owner=235600&offset=100&offset=75&offset=100

Currently, I have been tagging them with their lifetime payout, and then if that goes down, when it hits 2500, I get rid of the horse unless I want to breed him/her. That's the only way that seemed simple to me. mind you, comparing the horses years hb payout to their bh years cost only takes one trip to the horse, would want to repeat the marginal ones a bit later.

I have a feeling neither of these ways of mine are not very useful.

This is honestly way more work than you need to be doing. As long as a horse is gaining enough points per year it is worth keeping.

Cull for me means straight to the auction, selling takes too long, and it fluctuates on what people are looking for.

The way I’m doing it I only have to look through my horses once a month. Truthfully I don’t look at lifetime payout much. It was the reason I started culling this way to begin with, but I don’t use that as a factor in who I cull or don’t, I’ve culled horses with a 15k+ lifetime payout because they weren’t earning any points anymore, so I got the 15k in pocket to go look for a new better show horse. I spay/geld everything I don’t want to breed, that way they earn bonuses in training. I also try to have a minimum of a 3/1 ratio but have had a 9/1 ratio of show horses to breeding stock, and I currently have a 6.75/1 ratio, the higher the ratio the easier it is to breed, buy barns and GMT in one season without running out of hbs.

I’m a bit confused how you jumped from looking at the horses I’m culling to clones? Mind explaining that a bit further?

Clones always come out as yearlings, and have the same breeding ability as their parents from what I understand. You can only clone a horse you bred.

Not sure why I thought about cloning... now that I look back, it doesn't seem any reasoning to it.

Ammit, how do I figure how many points that is?

I apologize, yes Silverstar did. It kinda went over my head, but I've read it a couple more times and it's beginning to let me understand it.

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Until the horse has levelled off, you don't really know well it's going to make you money. I mean they will all make you some money if they are still gaining points, but high PT's can take a while to do that. But they are still worth keeping as the payouts can be much higher. So as long as you have the space it's better to keep them.
After 10yo, or when they have levelled off for the higher PT's, you can better work out if they are worth keeping or if they are better off being sold for their lifetime payout. Once they have levelled off they don't gain much so mostly stay in the class that they levelled off in. If they are consistently last in that class it might be worth selling for lifetime payout, as they won't gain many more points. Horses that level off near the top of their class are definitely worth keeping, they continue to gain really good points.
If you don't understand all that just get a couple of weeks into a year, so they have shown a few times, then search your older horses on for Points This Year.