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Era has no bearing on breeding ability. The main thing when planning breedings is to make sure you have paired C to Yellow, B to Red, A to Blue and Star to Gold. Then check the genetics to see what you hope for in the offspring. Pay particular attention to any genes that might be lethal, you don't want to risk dead foals. Other than that, maybe experiment to see what you get. Have fun!

The strand on the left is simply what came from the sire, and the strand on the right is from the dam. Imagine that for a gene a whole load of playing cards have been made with a copy of that gene (Ice 1 for example). You have two piles of cards, one for the left gene strand and one for the right gene strand. You then toss a coin - heads you take a card from the left hand pile to give to the foal, tails you take a card from the right hand pile to give to the foal. Then you do exactly the same with another set of cards for a dam. Toss a coin and take a card from either the left or right pile of cards. Your foal now has two cards (or gene strands) one from the sire, which is placed on the left hand side, and one from the dam, which is placed on the right hand side.

I hope this helps.

As previously stated, matching papers does help - you'll get more foals who pass breeding advice that way. However, I do very often breed my pastured mares (especially foundations) to a stallion who's one paper level higher. You still won't get quite as many who pass, but the pasture bonus helps. I also label my horses according to gen and paper level as a shortcut, so I know at a glance - and because I want to know at a glance and not fall victim to a moment of inattention, I label the mares like stallions (so a Red-papered foundation mare will have a "B" at the end of her name, while a Blue-papered 2nd gen mare will have "2A"). It's a reminder to myself what's best to breed them to.

I don't have particularly organized pastures, myself, simply because I don't have enough pastures to keep them as organized as I would like (one day!). Since I can't have a pasture for each boy right now, I decide which one I want to breed and put him in my little bonus 10-horse pasture, then pick mares for him 10 at a time and breed in batches. Admittedly, this takes a lot of time (and I only had about 350 breedable mares in my pastures this season - 70 of which are still waiting for their turn) and negates getting the pasture e-mail that tells you who your very best foal is; on the other hand, I do end up looking very closely at which mares fit which stallion best for what I want.

For instance, I have a black Ice 20 stallion, and happen to think Ice 20 looks best on black, grullo, or gray, so I only pick out mares in those colors for him, but have to avoid frame because he has frame and I don't want any dead foals. Or, when it comes to my liver stallions, I want them to have liver or chocolate palomino babies, so I assign them mares who could produce those colors when paired with them - and since one of those boys has frame, the other by default gets any of those mares with frame. I also try to save my chimera mares for my chimera stallions to up my chances, however slightly, for more chimeras.

In short, look at your stallions first, decide what you most like about them and want them to pass on and produce, and pair them with mares that will give you the best chance possible of getting what you want in a foal.

I wish i could afford to test them against there parent or sibling. One day :)) . So far im attempting to have a few similar lines to later cross over. I currently have 3 foundation sires im in love with. My cheer for thee holiday who was my first project 1040pt B papered. He started most of my lines. His colt that i have in 2g pasture i boosted to be an A paper and is homozygous for some of the genes im looking for. Now my foundation stallion marry go round is my 5boost A papered 1040pt stallion thats close to comparison to cheer for thee holiday but with a couple tweaks. I boosted him mainly to get blue papered 2g mares. Im not worried about the colts from him unless something suprises me. My goal is to cross my 2g A papered christmas line with my blue papered marry go round line. I love frames but know i have to be cautious with lethal genes which is why i chose to keep most white genes from mary go round. Im slowly tweaking the foundation mares to match up with my goals. Now my newest stallion a flaming light i made the mistake of keeping the homozygous silver @-) the foals i still like and him being B papered i havent quite planned out what to do with his foals other than try to cross out the silver and keep the other genes going. When i get the funds try to test the mares and the higher level reds/blue i may try to cross with the other two lines and the lower reds cross with a lower papered stallion.

I will try to put them below so you guys have a better refrence. Im going to attempt to go through the papering with the 2g pastures and sort them better based on papering and genetics.
Thank you guys for all the input, its always best to get a veiw from a different perspective with experience. :)

I think I figured out why you don’t have the funds to do testing. You have 200 show horses and over 1.5k breeding stock. Show horses are the money makers on the game. I have 2.5k show horses and 400 breeding horses. If you think about it every mare and stallion is an expence and every show horse makes money sometimes 20k or more. A mare will cost you roughly 80k for breeding and testing of the babies she gives you, during her lifetime if you use pastures to breed and don’t do comparison testing.
I did the math a couple years ago on a old account. Here’s the link. https://hj2.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/69963/my-breeding-budget-findings#Item_14