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HorseCrazyByNature, you might need to look at your barns. You have 179 intact horses and only 23 altered show horses. Your show string makes you money to fund your breeding operation. The recommended ratio is 3 show horses to every 1 breeding/intact horse.

You might also be able to consolidate some of your barns by putting all your horses into one or two barns and selling the extra barns. You have 2 horses in a 30 stall barn, 12 horses in another 30 stall barn, and 33 in a 60 stall barn.

You can pasture breed for auction. Mares cost 2500 to create and 500 to breed in pasture. (You can create stallions, too, or use ones you already have that you don't plan to fully breed this season.) You can auction the mare and foal for a guaranteed minimum of 2500 each, giving you a profit of 2000 for each 3000 you spend.

It sounds like you have plenty of barn space you can use to store the mares and foals entered in the auction. I save ten spaces in my 60 acre pasture, and create and breed 10 mares at a time. It takes a fair bit of time and effort, especially removing the mares from pasture one at a time so the other fifty can stay and get their breeding bonus, but it really pays off. You can use what you earn to buy high point horses at auction to increase your daily payment, too.