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If it's a show horse and they don't do well in showing I will send them to auction so I could potentially make room for better show horses that will bring an increase to the daily hbs.
I do pay attention to sires that throw foals that show well. I have noticed a trend in some horses producing good show horses even some really good intact studs or mares. It takes a few years of breeding them to figure out what the quality of there foals have and if they throw good show babies I would keep notes on them.

I rarely cull anything unless I really need the room or funds. I do comparison test my colts, so most are just gelded for the show barn. Sometimes I might have older mares that have been in the pastures all their life, so no point keeping them for their points, if I don't have anything intact by them they go into the auction. But otherwise I usually sell directly back to the game. Otherwise I just keep all the spays and geld in the show barn.

Back when I was short of space, and since ammit brought in the lifetime payout, I would check those show horses levelled off in a place which wasn't going to make me much more money, and put them through the auction for maximum payout. So a search on those over 10yo that hadn't made hardly any points in the last few weeks. Easier to do it at least a couple of weeks into a game year and it's easier to find those levelled off in a bad place and not going to make much more money

@Nightphoenix yes, a lot less!

Just a bit of caution: horses with a higher PT take a bit longer to level off. They level off around their age, so a horse with a PT of 12 levels off around the age of 12. With a PT of 13 levels off around the age of 13. So don't auction all of your 10year old horses just yet, they might not be done with training yet.

So to a answer your questions: like everyone else i cull horses that show badly. I cull based on points, so I'll sort my barns at age, and then look at the points from the bottom (oldest age) to the top, and also take in account their pt. So a horse that is 12 and has a PT of 13 I won't auction off yet as they are not done training. But a foundation horse with a pt of 9-10 that is 12 years old and has low points will get auctioned off at that point for their lifetime payout and to make room for new horses.

Broodmares or studs that continuously produce offspring that shows poorly?
This depends on the broodmare or stud for me. If they have special genes they can stay. If I have more of them, for example 2gen snowflakes, then they will get auctioned off when they are old enough (13+). However, pasture horses are just kept there till they are too old to breed.
Oh I read this wrong, I'm sorry. I read this as "broodmares or studs that do produce offspring but show badly themselves".
If you mean broodmares or studs that produce poor offspring they get the snip and probably be auctioned off to make some room. But, like Humboldt above me, I comparison test all my intact horses against their parents and only the superior ones stay. So that means they will always produce better foals then their ancestors.

I must say it also depends on the time I have to go through my barns and seek out the slackers (showing wise), and whether I'm in need for more barn space or not. :))

I cull poorly showing altered foals over 10 who are leveled off.

I don’t typically pay attention to who produces my best and worst show horses. I’ve been so focused on breeding quality and PT score I guess I just haven’t thought of it. I’m kind of curious now though

Every time I think I'm getting comfortable with this game, there's so much more I still don't know! /:) Right now, I'm just trying to build up a breeding string that I'm comfortable with, but I guess this all gives me more to consider moving forward!