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There is a way of breeding horses to speed up getting the increasingly higher PT scores that are one of the goals of breeding.

A player starts with a high generation number, high breeding paper level stallion and breeds him to a number of lower generation/lower breeding level mares. When any resulting fillies reach breeding age, the player breeds them to their sire. This practice continues, breeding the stallion to his female offspring.

This gives the offspring an advantage in showing. It may also give some advantage to breeding ability, as many of the fillies will be better breeders than their dams and will also likely be better for showing. The colts will also have a chance to be better at showing, though I doubt any of them will be better breeders than their sire.

I believe this works quite well for its purpose, for those who stick with it, but I have never used this system myself.

Perhaps someone who does bootstrapping regularly will chime in with better information.

You're correct. Those patterns would not work at all with bootstrapping.

I would definitely not use any white spotted horses or horses with Frame (O). It would also be a good idea not to use Splash 2 or Splash 3, which are also homozygous lethal and lethal in combination.

Splash 1, Tobiano, Roan, Sabino 1 and 2, and White 20 should not cause problems.

Those are gorgeous horses, bluchrystals. What a stunning line you've started.

I have never had an issue with the lethal crosses, but I have always kept a low white factor in my studs.

I also Bootstrap , and can give help if needed :)

This was my OG Bootstrap :

ssLi Emerald Berries HPT

I am currently using a couple of his sons that passed BA ( I tossed some Gold papered mares in there to try to get a couple boys to pass )

This is one son I am using and 1 grandson :

LG Li Sage by Emerald 79


LG Li Burnt by Sage 66

I got insanely lucking when I started out and was able to snag two clones from Johara’s incredible lines.

These two are the founders of my line. And I am yet to find anything superior to them. They both throw 13 and 14pt foals despite having scores of 12.70 and 12.80.


2 High PT 11808214

1 High PT 11797936

Since those boys have aged out these two are my new primary studs. (I have others that I use but these ones get the best mares) Another one out of johara’s line and one from Twany’s

BLBS Blackmane 14031823

BLBS Aspiration

I say breed as many mares as you can sustain. For my bootstrap horses, last season I bred ball park 500 mares. I throw them into a pasture to save money and time, but I put them back into the show barn after they’re bred. I also sell over half of them in the auction breed them in the pasture for 500, sell at 2500 boom profit. I select all and SBA test and keep who ever passes (normally only a few pass) . I try to only keep about 100 foals from my two primary stallions.

When I first started out I bred my studs to foundation mares. I only got 35ish from each stallion at the time. I didn’t have the funds or space for any more. I bred to foundation mares for 6ish game years to build up my stock. Then started breeding back to daughters.

I’ve bred sires to daughters and bred the same mares to different stallions and I personally don’t see a difference. The end goal is a high pt score and as long as it’s climbing do what makes you happy.

Ive bought super flashy studs with genes I really liked (perfect example is aspirations up there) just to add something fun to my lines. It’s definitely more enjoyable when you like the horses your looking at

This is just what I do and I’m sure there’s tons of things I could do differently, but I hope this helped a little bit