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Dont breed for other people. Breed what you like for yourself. Also, the best thing you can do starting out is keep your altered foals and get more barns! The key to this game is "You need more horses!"

If the horses are not up to some else's breeding standards, they may gamble on them as a show horse. If the horse doesn't test out well enough to be worth their time as a show horse, then they'll try to recoup their money by selling them off.

If the horses are good quality breeders or showers or both, the rescue will pick them up and they will be safe.

Being spayed or gelded isn't an insult. Show horses are the backbone of a stable's income. Everyone needs a good string. That's actually far more important than pretty colors.

I think you may be trying to play this game like other equine sims out there, and if so, you won't have much fun. Here, the quality of the horse matters to most players above anything else. And show horses - the geldings and the spayed mares - are a vital part of your herd. (Yes, all horses can show. However, geldings and spayed will be better at it than an identical stallion or mare.)

You don't make much money from breeding, standing stallions, or selling horses. Not compared to what you can make showing. Sales and stud fees are pocket change.

It's commendable that you use the testing that is available to you, but please be aware that there is other testing available to upgraded players. And those tests can also spay or geld horses that fail. So it's very possible the people didn't geld or spay the horses, they simply didn't get through the other tests. Maybe they did want it as a breeding animal and it failed other tests.

I buy inexpensive horses all the time myself just hoping for good show stock. If the horse is good enough, I'll spay or geld, and add it to my string. If its not a good enough show horse, I'll resell. If it fails a test, gets spayed or gelded, and isn't a good enough show horse, then it gets sold spayed or gelded. None of that is meant as an insult. It's just a matter of me gambling on someone else's horse and either it makes the cut for what I wanted it for or it does not.

You got paid the money you asked, they get the horse to use as it works for them. Or resell if it doesn't. If you want to make sure the horse is used as you want it to be, the only answer is to not sell. Just like in real life.

As a side note, please note that we do require people to use proper grammar, punctuation, ect on the forum. It makes it much easier to read things, and makes misunderstandings less likely. :)