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All of my geldings and spays are thrown together in show barns. My lined mares are sorted into barns by generation, my foundation mares are sorted into barns by era and my stallions are intermixed into stallion barns.

There really is no added value in sorting them, in my opinion. I practice "breed 'em and leave 'em." :P

Some people, before the show system conversion, put all of their 8W horses into their own barn. They would then manually show them because the entry fee was very high, but even this really has no added value any longer.

I sort them into groups of stallions, lined mares, foundations mares, and spays/geldings, and then sort those groups by age and PT. The age and PT thing just helps me know which ones are more likely to have leveled off than others, so I know who has reached their time to go (if they didn't get a lot of points).

Starting with Year 52, I throw all foals from that year into a barn of horses that age. It doesn't matter if they're stallions, mares, gelds, or spays - the whole barn shows, so they might as well all earn me points. Anything before that, I have separate barns for mares, stallions, and show horses. I also have an auction/sales barn that is still used for that purpose.

When breeding, I don't sort them based on the barn. I use the prefixes by their names (numbers only is a "special" line, Xn is exceptional, etc etc) to put the right mares in pastures with the right stallions.

I don't sort my showers. Just throw them in a "neutered barn" and let them do their thing.