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I currently keep a small group of each generation running simultaneously, a 30 acre pasture for each generation and a 60 acre for my foundations. I replace mares that are aging out or don’t quite fit my color/type goals every season. Once I get all the mares matching my color goals, I’ll start comparison testing and replacing mares with superior ones. :) that way I never run into the issue of running out of a certain generation. I’m only up to the 4th gen right now, but so far it’s working out okay. I’m pretty strict with my breeding standards, so I’m doing okay with space for breeding stock right now, and luckily you can buy barns for show ponies with horse bucks!

I keep the foundations in my largest pasture because I find second generation horses to be my biggest moneymakers- a lot of them level off in the 7W level, which has excellent point payouts per class. Horses I breed past that gen tend to have slightly higher PTs, so they level off around the 8L or 8R level, which has much poorer payouts. It takes quite a few generations for the PTs to get high enough to reach 8W, so until that point the second gens reign supreme. :))

That's good to know that the 2nd Gen horses can be really great showers, I don't usually have the time to manage my show horses with too much detail, I just usually keep most of geldings/spayed mares.

I would like to try to go into the higher generations and chase down some high PT scores, so maybe I'll pick one line to do that with, while keeping the others breeding at 1-2 generations. Thanks everyone!