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Amber - 44605 - 75 k

@Hayes - the problem is her sire line. "As good as" is actually "about as good as" which has a very different meaning. Her sire could actually be worse than his sire, which means her quality could be lower than her parents. Or her grandparents.

There are basically three ways people play the game - they either breed for quality, breed for color, or breed for both. People that breed for quality or both aren't usually happy with "about as good as" sires, they want to see improvement with every generation, particularly in this price range. It's one thing to take a gamble on a 4k horse, but at 75k...that's a pretty big gamble. Belasko has been fairly vocal in the past about breeding for color, so seeing a horse coming out of her lines could be enough for people who emphasize quality to lose interest.

I don't mean to be insulting your horses, I just wanted you to understand how people are evaluating this one in particular.

As a free account, no. I don't remember whether a basic upgrade can, or if it's kept for premium upgrades?

If you are looking to breed for quality (and you don't have to - if you want to breed for color instead, absolutely feel free to!) all you need to do is keep only the best and spay/geld a LOT. :) Start from where ever you want, it is very satisfying to start from your own foundations, but you can also purchase 2nd, 3rd, 4th, whatever generations and build from there. As long as each generation you breed is better than the last, you're breeding for quality.

Most of all - breed for what *you* want - there is very little money in breeding for what you might sell. The market is fickle, the more you sell the cheaper those gene/bloodlines are perceived as, and there are always newer LE genes that'll drop the price of what you have.

It's not a matter of "regulations". If you are breeding for your own stable, breed whatever you want.

The catch is when you're breeding with plans of selling the horses, that's when you have to figure out what everyone else's standards are. Or at least, how to breed horses that appeal to as many people as possible since you're never going to please everyone.

And...there's a reason I rarely - like, never - sell stock I've bred. ;)

I play my game for myself. I keep most of my "unwanted" youngsters as show stock to fund the breeding/creating, so I have a self-sufficient operation going. I don't *need* my horses to appeal to anyone else, so I don't care if they do or not.

I find it more fun that way. Other people don't. Some do breed just to sell - that's what they find to be fun.

The easiest way to improve your own lines is to work "slow and steady" and just make every generation a bit better than the last.

Thank you, she is going to make a very pretty addition to my small herd :)