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lol, I feel this.
At the moment I'm trying to improve my show herd, but in doing so I've entirely lost my breeding plans!

My pastures are by generatioms and coat colors/genes to focus on. My barns are either for holding ET mares or show barns.

Until recently I tried to stick to only one breeding line per account, and it kept things much easier. Right now this account has three different lines, my main line, a bootstrap line and a WW/lace line. I breed by generation, and my sorting is based on names. All names start with a generation prefix 1g,2g exc. My bootstrap horses names all start with UE, and I don't need anything else to distinguish them. For my WW/Lace all names start with generation-name-BC, the BC tells me they belong to the WW line. For my main line I only use the generation, since any other sorting is un-necessary. All show horses names start with a Zz.

I have one barn for stallions, and all my stallions have to fit in that barn typically a 15-30 stall barn. I have one pasture and the mares in there are by generation, I have two 90-120 stall mare barns for my primary line, one 90 stall bootstrap barn, a 90 stall sorting barn for foals, and a 15 stall barn for my WW/Lace line. Then several barns for show horses.

As for your last question. It depends on your priorities, quality, quantity, color, size, Pt, exc. My first priority is quality. All my generation lines start with B/Red foundations, so all 2g horses have to be A/Blue or paper superior to their parents, all 3g horses have to be A/Blue and test superior. As generations progress I get stricter on my color requirements. For my bootstrap line I am primarily breeding for PT, though I am starting to work on quality. I keep all of my spay and gelded horses and they go directly into a show barn.