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Some players who are strict with their lines will not keep a mare that is not superior, but others will.

I don’t breed specific lines, so my culling is a little more relaxed. I cull my mares based on three questions. Is she superior? Is she consistent? Does she have genes that I like? At minimum, two of those questions must have yes as the answer. If two or all of the questions have no as the answer, I won’t use that mare for breeding (with a few rare exceptions).

For example, if I bred a consistent hom pearl hom LP mare that was AGA, I would keep her because she fulfills two of my three criteria.

I’m now starting to get superior 4th gen foals, so this method works well for me, but it might not work for everyone :)

I do not. A mare has to test superior (depending on if I’m going to keep her as a implant mare) for me to keep her. There are some fillies/mares I have kept intact to be used as a embryo implant mare (cause I didn’t have the heart to spay her). And same with colts, like just yesterday I got a chimera colt from my stallion Messiah that stayed intact but was C papered. I’m keeping him intact as a BootStrap stallion.

Now by 5th gen I expect mares/studs to be *Star or *Gold and I occasionally get the *Star or *Gold 4th gen and that’s totally fine with me.

Are you having that ratio becuase in general you are getting more colts than fillies or are you actually getting 1 sup filly for every 3 sup colts ? I know I get a Ton more colts than fillies every season, so its "easier" to get more Sup colts

No that's not an exact ratio. Just from today I have 9 superior colts and only 4 fillies. This is a better ratio than I had yesterday though.

Edit: I guess to be fair, my best foal was a filly as determined by the game.

@Maribo if I had a bigger show barn I’d Ben keeping all my sprays and gelds

All of my 2G mares test superior to their dams, with very rare exceptions.

Although, I rarely test them against their own dams anymore. I test them against an expro foundation mare. I keep those who test AGA an ExPro and mark the ones who test superior to Expro. When I go through the mares to cull every season, the AGA expro are generally the first to go. If they test worse than an expro, I spay. Even if they’re superior to their dam.

I started doing that because I had too many horses. I could and probably should raise the bar again to just keeping those superior to expro, because I have a ton of 2Gs, but it’s too hard. Some of the AGA are too pretty :))

All my 2G stallions test Superior to Expro.

(I typically breed from C/Yellow foundations)

@GildedFire Then I would say you need more show ponies and less breeders, so you can save up for another barn ;)

I geld/spay all foals that pass SBA but test AGA and keep them as show horses. All my breeding stock must be superior to their parents in their entire pedigrees.

I keep my mares in their respective pastures year round.

I breed from mostly C/Yellow foundation stock, with some B/Red foundations mixed in. That being said, I expect to see A/Blue at 3rd generation. I do get A/Blue at 2nd generation too, but that is a bonus for me. I expect to see Star/Gold at 5th generation. Star/Gold at 4th generation is a bonus.

However with all that being said, there have been a few times I did keep AGA colts and boost them to the point where they tested superior to their sires, but they always passed SBA. The main reason why I kept those was because of their genes.

@Monstrosity I test goals against their parents until one is superior. I mark that horse as my benchmark and then all other foals get tested against that benchmark until a horse tests superior to that horse, repeat.

Every time a horse tests superior to the benchmark I also change the new benchmark to the opposite gender and test all the other horses of that gen. Of course I swap the horse back when I am done.

Oops, I meant gender @annismyrph - been a long day!